Brain food

It’s amazing what you accomplish, if you do not care who gets the credit.

- Harry S Truman

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress.

- Sophia Bush

Ask yourself, “Who can I make smile this morning?” This is the art of creating happiness.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Healthy striving is self-focused: ‘How can I improve?’ Perfectionism is other-focused: ‘What will they think?’

- Dr Brené Brown

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes… even you.

- Ann Lamott

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

- Allan Watts

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

- Albert Einstein

We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard’s education. The trick is not to amass

- Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

- Will Ferrell

We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavored to live with the land; they seemed to live off it. I was taught to preserve, never to destroy.

- Tom Dystra

If we move through our day with an open awareness of the many good things around us, we correct the brain’s built-in negativity bias.

- Dr Rick Hanson

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

- Dr Christopher Germer

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

- Pablo Picasso

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.

- Australian Aboriginal saying

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

- Jim Carrey

Exercise has a more profound and sustained positive effect on mood, anxiety, cognition, energy, and sleep than any pill I can prescribe.

- Dr Anna Lembke

By taking just a few extra seconds to stay with a positive experience – even the comfort in a single breath – you’ll help turn a passing mental state into lasting neural structure.

- Dr Rick Hanson

In the simple act of taking a breath, we are inhaling stardust.

- Dr Rick Hanson

So I get my mental straight, write my problems til the pencil breaks, therapeutic, if it puts me in a better place I gotta do it, instead of losing myself I found music.

- Baker Boy