When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.  ~Author Unknown

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.  ~Author Unknown

I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash

Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.  ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

We’re all a little weird.  And life is a little weird.  And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.  ~Robert Fulghum, True Love

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.  ~Raymond Inmon

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.  ~Paul Dudley White

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.  ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.  ~Steven Wright

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.  ~G.M. Trevelyan

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.  ~Aldous Huxley

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body.  I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.  ~Wallace Stevens

After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.  ~George Macauley Trevelyan

I dream of hiking into my old age.  ~Marlyn Doan

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.  ~Cyril Connolly

Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying.  To solve a problem, walk around.  ~Gregory McNamee

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.  ~John Muir

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.  ~Thomas Mann

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.  ~John Muir

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.  Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness.  I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.  ~Soren Kierkegaard

Walks.  The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.  ~Jules Renard

Author walking on beach in New Jersey.

I equate writing with singing. People often won’t sing because at some point, usually during their formative years, someone told them they weren’t doing it right. They closed off their voice and became quieter.

Many think they can’t write, as if its a skill you either possess or don’t. My point? Who cares? Use it anyway. I write for my life now. It doesn’t have to be perfectly tailored pieces; it just needs to be released from my mind.

That’s why journaling is so powerful. There is no right or wrong to it. You simply need to move the thoughts from your brain onto paper. That’s it. Doesn’t sound very helpful, does it? But actually, its a tool by which you begin purging often-negative mental junk and clarifying the true, clear voice underneath.

If you make a practice of writing every day, you will see changes in your life. I promise. Its almost uncanny how accessible and simple of a life-changing tool it it, right at your disposal. It’s therapy on paper. It’s creativity refining itself into actual, tangible ideas. It’s release for a quieter mind.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

Back then I didn’t think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn’t the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel

Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
Mary Schmich

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
Ludovico Ariosto

I do not say anything from jealousy.
Anna Held

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell

It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
Rupert Everett

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Henry Ellis

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
John Wooden

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
John Wooden

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

We resist the art of self-care, perhaps because we get it confused with being selfish.  As children, many of us were taught that selfishness is a bad thing and we ought to put others first.  There’s great value in that, of course.  Concern for others is something that our mothers need to teach us, to help us grow out of the self-centeredness of childhood into the give-and-take of mature adulthood.  We have to be taught to share, to be generous, to make sacrifices for the needs of others.

But sometimes we take this too far and don’t place a high enough value on taking care of our own needs.  We hope that if we take care of the needs of others that the “others” will feel so grateful or so guilty that they will turn around and take care of our needs.  When they don’t, we get to feeling mighty resentful and mighty empty.

So, it turns out that we also need to be taught how to take care of ourselves.  We need to invest in nourishing our whole selves, and do so regularly.  We need to make time and space for relaxing the mind.  For stretching the body.  For opening the soul.

I find that this kind of self-care is harder to learn than it might seem at first.   But I think that if we can make a distinction between selfishness and self-care, we are well on our way to learning this life-giving lesson.My favorite analogy is offered at 35,000 feet high by your friendly, helpful flight attendant.   He or she gives some really helpful guidance.  If there is a sudden drop in cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop from overhead compartments.  If you are caring for a child or someone else who needs your assistance, put your oxygen mask on first.  Then, since you will be alive and alert, you will have the capacity to help someone else.

It is not selfish to tend and care for your own life.  If you do take good care of yourself, everyone wins.  And if you don’t, who will?

by Jennifer L. Kunst, Ph.D.

Source: Psychology Today

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