VITAL EARTH TRADITIONS
"Handcrafted Sustainable Beauty"
"Food is the chief of all medicines."
The Upanishads (c.800-c.400BCE)
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first"
Shakespeare
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
Mother Teresa
"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."
Helen Keller
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass"
George Herbert
"Character is higher than intellect, A great soul will be strong to live,
as well as strong to think."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let thy words be few"
Ecclesiastes 5:2
"Impatience never commanded success"
Edwin H. Chapin
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quite.
There's no use being a damn fool about it."
W.C. Fields
"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another...it will not change you."
Wayne Dyer
"I want to know God's thoughts ... the rest are details."
Albert Einstein
"Health and cheerfulness make beauty"
Cervantes
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise"
Mother Teresa
"You do not see things as they are, but as you are"
Eric Butterworth
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom"
Aristotle
"The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a
scented massage every day"
Hippocrates
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound a cure"
Benjamin Franklin
"A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is
until you put her in hot water."
Nancy Reagan
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser
"Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation"
Massillon
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"
Theodore Roosevelt
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless"
Mother Teresa
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature
cures the disease"
Voltaire
"The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
Chinese Proverb
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
Albert Sweitzer
"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside"
Albert Schweitzer
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Mother Teresa
"The difference between try and triumph
is a little umph"
Author, Unknown
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance"
St. Francis of Assisi
"As I see it, everyday you do one of two things: build health or produce
disease in yourself"
Adelle Davis
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person,
a beautiful thing. "
Mother Teresa
"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds"
Albert Einstein
"The wish for healing has ever been half of health"
Seneca
"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it's yours"
Dr. Robert Anthony
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread"
Mother Teresa
"Cheerfulness is the very flower of health"
Japanese Proverb
"You can use your life in a useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into positive energy that empowers you and
makes you feel meaningful."
Thich Nhat Hnah
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that
we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa
"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value"
Albert Einstein
"A harmonious relationship with the one you love can enhance your work, health and entire well-being."
Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom"
Thomas Jefferson
"Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving"
Dennis Waitley
"You are what you think about all day long"
Dr. Robert Schuller
"Fitness-If it came in a bottle everybody would have a great body"
Cher
"Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be
content with what you have"
Doris Mortman
"joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside"
Melba Colgrove
"We are the masters of our fate. We are still the captains of our souls."
Winston Churchill
"It is prosperity that gives us friends and adversity that proves them"
Proverb
"Work as though you were to live 100 years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow"
Benjamin Franklin
"When you shoot arrow of truth, dip it's point in honey"
Arab Proverb
"There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate,
white chocolate, and chocolate truffles."
Anonymous
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"
Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver"
Gandhi
"Where ever there is a human being there's
an opportunity for kindness"
Abraham Lincoln
"A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ"
John Steinbeck
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship"
Buddha
"He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything."
Arabian Proverb
"There was never a good war or bad peace"
Benjamin Franklin
"Our life is frittered away by detail ...
Simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau
"Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three
good health abound"
Latin Proverb
"Honest hearts produce honest actions"
Brigham Young
"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness
of a child at play"
Heraclitus
"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do"
John Wooden
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity,
we know our friends"
John Churton Collins
"A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship;
and he who plants kindness gathers love"
Basil
"I sometimes wonder if pleasures are not substitutes for joy"
CS Lewis
"This is my commandment, that ye love one another."
Jesus, In John 15:12
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it eats him last"
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won"
Winston Churchill
"Activity and sadness are incompatible"
Christian bovee
"True happiness..is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose"
Helen Keller
"The best way out is through"
Robert Frost
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence
and ability to perform cease to exist"
Mary Kay Ash
"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
Robert Ingersoll
"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake"
"Dreams are touchstones of our character"
Henry David Thoreau
"Food is the chief of all medicines"
The Upanishads
"People become really quite remarkable when
they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have
the first secret of success."
Norman Vincent Peale
"The best way to predict the future is to implement it"
David Heinemeier Hansson
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself!"
William Faulkner
"Hope is the dream of a waking man"
Aristotle
"In order to change we must be tired of being sick and tired"
Author, Unknown
"The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing"
Socrates
"If you don't have any charity in your heart, you have the worst
kind of heart trouble"
Bob Hope
"Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."
Samuel Smiles
"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only
requires that you try."
Mother Teresa
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Arguing with a fool proves there are two"
Doris W. Smith
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance"
Confucius
"If you would create something, you must be something"
Joann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When your through changing, your through"
Bruce Barton
"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." "There is no such thing as a simple act of service. “Your children will see what you're all about by what you live Author Unknown "Enjoy life, This is not a dress rehearsal" Author Unknown "Fractures well cured make us more strong."
Amelia Earhart
"They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick looking tiger."
Chi Chi Rodriguez
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well"
Rene' Descartes
"God directs you from one emotion to another and teaches through opposites, so that you may have two wings to fly, not just one."
Jalal AD-Din Rumi
"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Clarity embellishes profound thoughts."
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences."
Carolyn Myss
rather than what you say.”
Wayne Dyer
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa
"The truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas."
Shoseki
"A vision without action is an illusion. An action without
vision is confusion!"
Willie Jollie
"I want to know God's thoughts ... the rest are details."
Albert Einstein
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Kahlil Gibran
"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people
who choose to follow you."
Dennis Peer
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
kindness in giving creates love."
Lao-Tzu
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
Mother Teresa
"When you let go of the 'need' for it, you will get what you want"
Author Unknown
"I do not pray for success, I pray for faithfulness"
Mother Teresa
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away”
"I've learned people will forget what you've said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel!"
Maya Angelou
"Life is 10% what happens to you and
90% how you react to it"
Charles R. Swindoll
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Alexander Hamilton
"Words which do not give the light of Christ
increase the darkness."
Mother Teresa
"A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up"
Anonymous
"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value."
Albert Einstine
"Pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge."
Psalm (62:8 NIV)
"Peace begins with a smile."
Mother Teresa
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you
give of yourself that you truly give."
Kahlil Gibran
"Every time you hold your tongue when attacked or misrepresented your spiritual power grows. Humility gives you authority"
.Mt.27:12
"Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out."
Robert Collier
"It's easy to laugh. It's easy to hate.
It takes strength to be gentle and Kind."
Stephen Morrissy
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
Henry Ford
"They can because they think they can."
Virgil
"Every Artist was first an amateur"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
Mother Teresa
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
Gandhi
"The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid."
Confucius
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
William James
"No man was ever wise by chance."
Seneca
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
Charles Dickens
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
Helen Keller
"After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box!"
Italian Proverb
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our
standing in our own sunshine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the
first steps to something better."
Proverb
"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of the mind than on outward cirumstances."
Benjamin Franklin
"Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult."
Hypocrites
"Whenever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape
within the problems."
Nelson A. Rockefeller
"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities."
Aristotle
"The seat of knowledge is in the head, wisdom in the heart."
William Hazlitt
"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind."
Alice Meyell
"Reputation is what is what men and women think of us;
character is what God and Angels know of us."
Thomas Paine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The more a man knows the more he forgives."
Catherine The Great
"By associating with wise people
you become wise yourself."
Menander