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Changing our opinions - Ben Franklin

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Lionizing a Founding Father on the Fourth of July is a simple task, to be sure, but Benjamin Franklin turns this process on its ear. He represents all we can be and all we should be, and likewise represents all we no longer seem to be or care to be today.

"He is worthy of admiration, which is easy, and worthy of emulation, which is not," writes William Rivers Pitt: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070406Z.shtml.

Germs don't cause disease - Dr. Alec Burton

"DO GERMS CAUSE DISEASE? Or could it be the other way around... first the disease, then the germs? Natural Hygiene contends that germs do not cause disease. They are not the originators.

Most diseases occur when people allow themselves to become enervated, that is, low in nerve energy. As a consequence, the organs of excretion fail to function normally and waste material accumulates in the body.

When this waste continues to build up, exceeding the body's toleration point, a crisis arises. The body, to offset this overabundance of poisonous matter, begins to react. The result of this reaction is sometimes a cold, the flu, pneumonia, or some such, depending on the individual.

At this crisis point of elimination, germs may or may not be present. They are sure to come later, not to attack, but to assist in the cleanup or cleansing process." - Dr. Alec Burton

Man's body vs. our artificial conditions

"The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease."

- Professor Hilton Hotema

The healing powers of laughter and joy

"If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of Nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal." - Catherine Ponder

True wealth is...

"True wealth is what you are, not what you have."

- Anonymous

Leave your drugs... - Hippocrates

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates.

How slowly you go - Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

Our beauty has been placed in our care

Our beauty has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. - Katherine Anne Porter

All of us could take a lesson from the weather

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. - Unknown

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
- George Matthew Adams (1878-1962), American Author

The object of travel - Chesterton

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is (in the end), to set foot on one's own country, as if it were a foreign land!" - G. K. Chesterton

The 3 wishes of every person, by Plato

The three wishes of every person: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. - Plato

Good food vs. medicine

“Good food can be healthier than medicine.” – Dr. Ann Wigmore

We consume countless chemical additives that no knowledgeable person...

"It has become ‘normal’ to live off fast foods, frozen TV dinners, processed and artificial foods fortified with synthetic vitamins, and animal products at almost every meal. We feed our children trash such as candy bars and sugar-coated cereals with artificial blueberries. We consume countless chemical additives that no knowledgeable person could even pretend to be safe." - Theodore H Schmidkonz.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. - Ruskin

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. - J. Ruskin

Your life is a gift - a Danish proverb

"Your life is a gift from the Creator. What you do with your life is your gift to the Creator."
- Danish proverb

To keep beauty in its place - Santayana

Beauty will no longer be an incidental gift. To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful. - G Santayana.

The best six doctors anywhere...

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.

- Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

In a Red Room...

"If you wake up in a red room
With no windows or doors,
Don't panic .
You're just in my heart." - Unknown

Do not follow... Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and create a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live your life... Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though there are no miracles. The other is as though
everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

Two Great Food Quotes

"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison."

- Dr. Ann Wigmore, ND

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

- Albert Einstein

The joy of doing a kind act... Neilen

"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself." - A. Neilen

Opportunities are not offered... Indira Gandhi

"Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance..and courage. "  - Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister

The Doctor of the future... Edison

"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will
interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet,
and in the cause and prevention of disease."

—Thomas Alva Edison - Inventor and Businessman.

America... Bono

America is not just a country. It's an Idea.

U2's-Bono

Love is the ability... Dyer

In the words of Wayne Dyer,

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
 

Thought of the day... Donna May

Learn from experience,
(as have i, so many times),
what all the good,
that just a simple smile,
or just a kind word, from you,
can all the great things do.

Make someone laugh today,
or just smile, it will brighten up
someone's life when you least
expect to give that great gift,
the gift of Peace, Love, and Harmony....

Blessed are they who can give a smile,
even, when,
their world seems to be crumbling 
down around them...

Peace, love and chicken grease....

love,
Donna may

The Psychology of Gratitude

"Gratitude is an appreciation of your life right now, versus where you want it to be." ~ Dr. Robert Emmons, The Psychology of Gratitude

Miracles... St. Augustine

"Miracles happen not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of nature." - St. Augustine

Raw From the Practical Viewpoint... Jinjee

"Since we human creatures are frequently quite nearsighted, rather than think about how the junky food we are tempted to eat will affect our health in the distant future we ought instead to think about how it will affect our next visit to the bathroom!"

To Your Health,
Jinjee
http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

Focus on your strengths... Frederic Patenaude

"Don't focus on your weaknesses and try to make them stronger. I believe in focusing on your strengths and making them stronger." - Frederic Patenaude

The philosophy of Vegan values...

"The philosophy of Vegan values is the practice of non-violence." - unknown

About life...

"Life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself." - unknown

[The word "create" is from the Latin "curare," meaning "to grow." - Jim]

Faith is...

"Faith is not knowing how to get from point A to point B. Faith is knowing that there IS a point B." - unknown

Advanced technology... Arthur C. Clarke

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

Quotes - Thomas Carlyle

“A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.” - Thomas Carlyle

IF your dream or vision is clear...

"If your dream or vision is clear and like a stroll in the park, it's probably not big enough to really excite and drive you." - unknown

What the world needs... Harold Truman Whitman

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Harold Thurman Whitman

Don't spend your energy.... Don Haughey

"Don't spend your energy on your commitment, draw your energy from it!" - Donald O. Haughey, founder, Creative Health Institute

Changing the world... Margaret Mead

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."


Margaret Mead, Anthropologist

Choosing your career... Oprah

"Sometimes you don't choose your career, sometimes your career chooses you." - Oprah

Human survival... Albert Einstein

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein

Men of character... Gandhi

"Men of stainless character and self-purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them." - Mahatma Gandhi

Health requires healthful food

"Health requires healthy food." Roger Williams

Beauty and vitality... da Vinci

"Beauty and vitality are gifts from nature for those who live by her laws."
- Leonardo da Vinci

The Animals of the World... Alice Walker

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."

- Alice Walker, author and activist.

Survival on Earth... Einstein

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

- Albert Einstein

Most people try to make things... J. Goodwin

"Most people try to make things more complicated than they are."

- Johnathan Goodwin, co-founder, SAE Energy

Love... Gandhi

"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is Life."

- Mahatma Gandhi