Health Quotes - Page 40

• UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

  Jane Curtin

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

  Joan Halifax

  Motivation, Inspiration, Compassion

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• There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inevitability Of Death, Matter, Trouble

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• How can you eat anything with eyes?

  Will Keith Kellogg

  Food, Eye, Vegetarianism

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• Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

  Galen

  Physicians, Essentials, Employment

  "Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations". Book by Edward Parsons Day, p. 223, 1884.

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• To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

  Francis Bowen

  Inspiring, Exercise, Men

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• In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Communication, Buddhism, Games

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• The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Play, Energy

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• Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Self

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• When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Athletics

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• You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Football, Buddhism, Break Through

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• Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Opponents, Relation

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• Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Fighting, Buddhism

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• If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Class

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Fighting, Buddhism

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• Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Order

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• The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Hands

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• The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Needs, Samurai

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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Samurai

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• The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Expression, Energy

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• If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Useless, Association

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• It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Healing, Buddhism, Body

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• I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Stronger

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• Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Buddhism, Thinking

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