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Inspirational quote: If you truly love nature, you'll find beauty everywhere - Van Gogh

Inspirational quote: Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world - JM Barrie

Inspirational quote: I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in tune once more - John Burroughs

Inspirational quote: Shall we make a new rule of life... always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? - JM Barrie

Inspirational quote: What we don't need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human - Brene Brown

Quote: Because of our unique genomes, different people may experience the same disease differently, and therefore might require different, specifically targeted drug interventions - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Quote: Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustable source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. Harry Potter

Quote: You are not alone. Laurie Brown, The Signal

Quote: When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir

Inspirational quote: To laugh at yourself is to love yourself - Mickey Mouse

Inspirational quote: This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.

Inspirational quote: The best time to plan an oak tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today. - Chinese proverb

Inspirational quote: owning your story is the bravest thing you will ever do. - Brene Brown

Excerpt from Rise Sister Rise by Rebecca Campbell

Quote: It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. Brother David Steindl-Rast

Self-esteem quote

Quote: I hope one day your human body is not a jail cell. Instead it's a sunny 2pm garden with daisies thriving because of self-love.

Quote: Here, in this body, your home for a lifetime.

Quote: Healthy self. Heal Thy Self.

Quote: God only gives us three answers: Yes, Not yet, or No, I love you too much. - Anonymous

Quote: I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. Mark Twain.

Quote: Every thought we think is creating the future. - Louise Hay

Stress and broadly-defined negative emotions, such as being irritated or anxious or hurt or sad, are inflammatory. - Rick Hanson, PhD

Atul Gawande quote: We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive.

Quote: How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious to the immensity of yourself? - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Photo of a person with arms outstretched with a sunset in the desert in the background. Caption reads "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

Photo of waterfall with rainbow passing through it, and person down below. Caption reads "Seek to discover what it is you are holding onto that keeps this condition in effect, and let go. Shed, release, cleanse away the old. That will bring on the thaw." - Joseph Campbell

inspirational quote: these mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb. Drawing of leaves at base.

Quote: I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. - Astrid Alauda

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