Brain food

Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake.

- Jaeda DeWalt

The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.

- Adam Goodes

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

- Sophia Bush

We overeat, not because we enjoy food too much; it is because we don’t enjoy it enough.

- Charles Eisenstein

Our minds are shaped by the modern world but originate in nature, and we have suffered as a result of this disconnect.

- Bill Bailey

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

- E. Joseph Cossman

Patience is also a form of action.

- Auguste Rodin

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

- Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

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

Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.

- Bell Hooks

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

This is your lifestyle, you can be what you wanna be, you can do what you wanna do, feel that cool breeze on your face again, feel the rain on your hair, running back to

- King Stingray

Where you stumble and fall, there you discover gold.

- Joseph Campbell

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

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.

- Derek Walcott  

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Madonna

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

This earth, I never damage. I look after. Fire is nothing, just clean up. When you burn, new grass coming up. That means good animal soon, Might be goanna, possum, wallaby. Burn him off, new

- Bill Neidjie