Brain food

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

- Socrates

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

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

- Albert Einstein

To us, health is about so much more than simply not being sick. It’s about getting a balance between physical, mental, emotional, cultural and spiritual health. Health and healing are interwoven, which means that one

- Dr Tamara Mackean

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

- Madonna

Self-compassion – taking care of ourselves just as we’d treat someone we love dearly.

- Dr Christopher Germer

Where you stumble and fall, there you discover gold.

- Joseph Campbell

The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow’s trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.

- Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

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

- Ann Lamott

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

- Rumi

Time doesn’t heal all wounds, but it does give the tools to endure them.

- Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

- E. Joseph Cossman

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

- Marlene Deitritch

And now I’m trying to do the little things, to get me through the day. I don’t know who I can tell, or how to talk about the ways, I’m not okay. Is that okay

- Mo’Ju

Emotions are now categorised, celebrated, vilified, repressed, manipulated, humiliated, adored and ignored. Rarely, if ever, are they simply honoured.

- Karla McLaren

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

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

- Jim Carrey

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

- Brodi Ashton

Sometimes you don’t feel the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.

- Unknown