“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”

-Navy Seals

"If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem."

— Hilary Mantel, British writer

 “If you’re not purposefully resting you are not building resilience in your life.”     

    Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

– Marcus Aurelius

“A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.”

Chuck Norris American martial artist, actor, and cultural icon

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.” Lao Tzu

“ Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.”

Shirley MacLaine, Actress, author

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

Wille Nelson

“I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while... What it did mean was that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking to recognize anything as awe-inspiring." Sue Patton Thoele, PhD, psychologist, author 

"We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe." 

Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, where he lived. His books include the huge bestseller When Bad Things Happen To Good People and When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough.

“Without awe life becomes routine…try to be surprised by something every day. Try to surprise at least one person every day.”

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi 1934–2021

“I don't think there's anything you can do that's better for you than a few minutes of awe”.

-Dacher Keltner, psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. 

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

-Albert Einstein

"Your life doesn't change by accident, it changes by intention."

-Jay Shetty

“You are what your deepest desire is. As your desire is, so is your intention. As your intention is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

-Adapted from the Upanishads Ancient Sanskrit Text

“You create your thoughts, our thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create our reality.”

Dr.Wayne W. Dyer

“if you aren’t doing what you love and loving what you do, your power of intention is weakened. You attract into your life more of the dissatisfaction that isn’t the face of love. Consequently, more of what you don’t love will appear in your life.”

― Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way

“Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Tony Robbins

“Just as nature takes away every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it, turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so too a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.”

Marcus Aurielius

“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in public and private life, have been the consequences of action without thought.”

— Bernard Baruch. American financier and statesman.