Brain food

The land is my mother. Like a human mother, the land gives us protection, enjoyment and provides our needs – economic, social and religious. We have a human relationship with the land: Mother, daughter, son.

- Djinyini Gondarra

The secret of change is to spend all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

- Socrates

While many silently suffer inside a suit of shining armour, the truly courageous take off their armour and allow themselves to be vulnerable.

- Mindarma

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

- Socrates

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

- Maya Angelou

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

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

- Gautama Buddha

May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I accept and embrace my flaws and imperfections; the shadow and the light of being fully human.

- Mindarma

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

- Madonna

If you have no time to rest it’s exactly the right time.

- Mark Twain

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

- Jim Carrey

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

- Pema Chödrön

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

- Pablo Picasso

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

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- Plato

People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.

- Dylan Moran

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

- Marlene Deitritch

Self-care is not self-indulgence, it’s self-preservation.

- Audre Lorde