Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Music is not supposed to rile you up. Music is something to bring you down.

I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.

Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

I don't really time how long it steeps, but in general I don't plan much when it comes to tea or cooking. I'm more about the feeling.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

Music really helps me stay centered. I can listen to music and forget about any issue that I have.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy & peaceful.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.