The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.
On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
Change is never a loss - it is change only.
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.
Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.
Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.
The secret of losing weight is patience.
There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.
You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.
Food is more than a matter of taste-it is the fuel for our bodies.
Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.
When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.
Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.
The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.
I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.
Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet 1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods 2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain 3. Avoid salty and sugary foods 4. Cut down on sugar 5. Emphasize whole grains 6. Beware of alcohol 7. Emphasize the Healthy Five: Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds Sprouted seeds such as soybeans Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ Yogurt and kefir Fresh fruits and vegetables
I am convinced that we become what we do.
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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