The robustness of our mental health has been food for thought throughout the ages.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.  – Aristotle

Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.  – Elbert Hubbard

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.  –  Aristotle

As we grow better, we meet better people. –  Elbert Hubbard 

Some pursue happiness, others create it.  –  Anonymous 

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.  –  Haim Ginott

Regardless how much they discover in the fields of neuroscience and present it in academics papers to woe the scholars…we just know that laughter works and makes learning easy….builds relationships……cements relationships……grows respect…..motivates.  –  Edward de Bono

This above all; to thine own self be true.  –  William Shakespeare

Love thy neighbour as you love yourself   –  Jesus

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.  –  William Shakespeare

When in doubt, tell the truth.  –  Mark Twain

A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.  –  Chinese proverb

The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.  –  Anonymous

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  –  Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.  –  Plato

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.   –  Joseph Addison

We cannot learn men from books.  –  Benjamin Disraeli

There is no They, Only Us.  –  Anonymous

Each day provides its own gifts.  –  Marcus Aurelius

Air is our highest survival need. With breath we speak words, make music and embrace life.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.  –  Murial Rukeyser

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.  –  L. Frank Baum

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.  –  Marcus Aurelius

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.  –  David Sarnoff

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.  –  John Updike

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.  –  Isaac Asimov

The earth has music for those who listen.  –  William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.  –  William Shakespeare

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.  –   Anthony Bourdain

That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest.  –  George Berkley

Too much food spoils the appetite, and too much talk becomes worthless.  –  Chinese proverb

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.  –  Confucius

Humour keeps us alive. Humour and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.  –  Joss Whedon

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. –  Charles M. Schulz

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.  – Bethenny Frankel

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.  –  Adelle Davis

When there is a huge solar energy spill, it is just called a nice day.  –  Author Unknown

I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.  –  Supposed quote by Thomas Edison to his friend cited in Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh”. Book by James Newton, 1987.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows.  – Helen Keller

Inspiration comes in ordinary packages, from the glimmer of sunlight through a forest of shadows to the innocence of a child’s smile.  –  Emilee Day

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.  –  William M. Thackeray

There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow, but it takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.   –  Author Unknown

And should the river of our happy laughter flow ‘neath a sky no cloud yet overcasts,
We will not fear the shadows coming after, but make the most of sunshine while it lasts.  –  E. Matheson, The New Year

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.  –  John Ruskin

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.   –  Author Unknown

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.  –  H. Auden

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. – Benjamin Franklin

Water doesn’t flow if it’s level, and people won’t complain if you treat them on the level. –  Chinese proverb

Trickling water, if not stopped, will become a mighty river.  –  Confucius

The earth, air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our forefathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.  – Gandhi

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states. – Carol Welch

Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do. Not a punishment for what you ate.  –  Anonymous

You have to exercise, or at some point you’ll just break down.  –   Barack Obama

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live in.  –   Jim Rohn

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.  – Thomas Edison

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.   –  Gene Tunney

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.  –  Ralph Waldo Emerso

Fatigue is the best pillow.  –  Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.  –  Benjamin Franklin

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep. – Leonardo Da Vinci

Time management’ is really a misnomer. The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.  –  Stephen R. Covey

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.  –  E. Joseph Cossman

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.  –  Homer

End the day with gratitude. There is someone, somewhere that has less than you.  –  Zig Ziglar

And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
– D.H. Lawrence