“Nothing comes from doing nothing.” William Shakespeare
“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.” William Shakespeare
Introduction: A recurring theme of this blog is using various quotes. In reviewing the blog site a while ago, Dan Brown said, “Frank has a bucket-load of quotes, from which he usually plucks a couple of appropriate ones to introduce each post and another for the conclusion. The type of quotes he chooses generally gives away the nature of the post; insightful and meaningful quotes may indicate a thoughtful piece of writing awaits, while ones from medical professionals usually commence a post on science, research, treatment, and other such topics.” And about every sec6nd year or so, I devote an entire blog post to quotes. I found six folders on the blog website labeled ‘quotes’ from recently until back in 2015 when the blog started. And I selected ~160 quotes divided up into the following 10 categories. It is very likely that I have used many of these quotes before, but they are still valuable for the purpose of helping us live through the diagnosis of Parkinson’s.
Here are the Categories for the 2025 Quotes Blog Post:
1. Hope (click here for a PDF version)
2. Positivity and Gratitude (click here for a PDF version)
3. Don’t Ever Give Up (click here for a PDF version)
4. Resilience and Aging (click here for a PDF version)
5. Journey of a Lifetime (click here for a PDF version)
6. Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Alii and Others (click here for a PDF version)
7. Happiness and the Authentic Self (click here for a PDF version)
8. Mindfulness and Life (Thích Nhất Hạnh, Lao Tzu, Brené Brown, and Others)
(click here for a PDF version)
9. Medicine, Science, Education, and Ancient Philosophers
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10. Exercise (click here for a PDF version)
Is there a preferred way to read 160 quotes in a single blog post? This is how I could envision using this collection of quotes. I would pick a category you or your care partner has chosen for you for the day ahead. For instance, if you are unmotivated to exercise one day, select that category. If you want words of wisdom from Michael J. Fox and others, pick this category one day. Or if you need motivation to get through a rough period, choose Don’t Ever Give Up or Resilience and Aging. Or maybe you just need words of support/encouragement; choose Hope, Positivity and Gratitude, Happiness and the Authentic Self, or Medicine, Science, Education and Ancient Philosophers. Finally, perhaps you need words to help refocus your mind due to a brief anxiety attack; read through Mindfulness and Life or the Journey of a Lifetime sections. Each section has been posted above as a PDF for ease in downloading the quotes. Enjoy!.
1. Hope. A cornerstone to this blog and my approach to living through Parkinson’s is to believe in the power of hope. Atul Gawande wisely said, “You may not control life’s circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.” And Christopher Reeve said, “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” Embracing hope potentially allows one to gain control of the trajectory of one’s life in the presence of Parkinson’s.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” Albert Einstein
“Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.” Pittacus Lore
“The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.” Maya Angelou
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. Maya Angelou
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it’s dangerous, that it’s painful and risky, that it’s making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?” Patrick Ness
“Hope anchors the soul.” Hebrews 6:19
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” Robert H. Schuller
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“…remember that what once been done may be done again.” Alexandre Dumas
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.” Ayn Rand
“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.” Thomas Merton
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” Joseph Campbell
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden
2. Positivity and Gratitude. Joyce Meyer stated, “You can not have a positive life and a negative mind.” it seems to me that a focus on what could happen being positive may have a bigger impact on our health, then assuming it all will be negative, Even in the midst of Parkinson’s, we should feel grateful for many things in our lives. Willie Nelson said it best, “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” Sophia Loren
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” Maya Angelou
“Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.” Jean-Pierre Barral
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” Hunter S. Thompson
“You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.” Paulo Coelho
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will neverI’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde
“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” Rose Kennedy
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. / Instead, focus on what to do next. / Spend your energies on moving forward / toward finding the answer.” Denis Waitley
“You can’t expect life to play fair with your heart or your brain or your health. That’s not the nature of the game we call life. You have to recognize the nature of the game and know that you can do your best to make the right choices, but life if going to do whatever the hell it pleases to you anyway. All you can control is how you react to whatever life throws at you. You can shut down or you can soar.” Holly Nicole Hoxter
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” Ben Okri
“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.” Randy Pausch
“The questions are always more important than the answers.” Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
3. Don’t Ever Give Up. The strength of our resistance against the constant pull of Parkinson’s into oblivion says a lot to our will-power and stage of life. It is not quite like the poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) “Forward, the Light Brigade! “Charge for the guns!” he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.” But. you get the point, try hard, do not give up, keep marching on against Parkinson’s.
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” Criss Jami
“Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on.” Paulo Coelho
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is found in unlikely places.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways – as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly…” Mary Anne Radmacher
“Never give up. It’s like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can’t do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don’t ever, ever, ever give up.” Richelle E. Goodrich
“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” Madeleine Albright
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” H.G. Wells
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” Winston S. Churchill
“Don’t ever give up. / Don’t ever give in. / Don’t ever stop trying. / Don’t ever sell out. / And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, / pick yourself up, / brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. / But never, ever, ever give up.” Richelle E. Goodrich
“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” Norman Vincent Peale
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” Edward Everett Hale
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.” Richelle E. Goodrich
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special. Jim Valvano
“Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” Jim Valvano The whole speech: http://www.jimmyv.org/about-us/remembering-jim/jimmy-v-espy-awards-speech/
4. Resilience and Aging. We define resilience as our ability to withstand or recover from difficulties. As said by Jon Avery, “When the road you’re on begins to crumble, forge ahead – better it crumble behind you than ahead of you.” And as withstand the regular attacks from Parkinson’s, we are also aging. Remember the words of Jules Renard, “It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.”
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. / Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. / Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. /
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” Yoko Ono
“Embrace aging.” Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“Wisdom comes with winters.” Oscar Wilde
“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.” Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“I’ve enjoyed every age I’ve been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I’ve been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don’t want a “perfect” face and body; I want to wear the life I’ve lived.” Pat Benatar
“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” Steve Maraboli
“One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.” Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. Lewis
“What’s meant to be will always find a way” Trisha Yearwood
“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.” Charles Jones
“The warrior is always trying to improve.” Paulo Coelho
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” Peter Marshall
“Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.” Eckhart Tolle
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” Bruce Lee
5. Journey of a Lifetime. Our journey certainly changed direction when we found out we had Parkinson’s. However, our life is still relevant, and although the destinations may be different than originally planned, remember these words, “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” J.R.R. Tolkien
It’s not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters. Margaret Laurence
One day or day one. It’s your decision. Unknown
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C.S. Lewis
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.” Paulo Coelho
“Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.” Bob Marley
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin
“In high seas or in low seas, / I’m gonna be your friend… / I’m gonna be your friend. / In high tide or in low tide, / I’ll be by your side… / I’ll be by your side.” Bob Marley
“Wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now.” Maya Angelou
“The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.” Daniel Quinn
“Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.” Dean Koontz
“Choosing one path means abandoning others – if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.” Paulo Coelho
“When there is no turning back, we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.” Paulo Coelho
“I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.” John Frusciante
“I do believe my life has no limits! I want you to feel the same way about your life, no matter what your challenges may be. As we begin our journey together, please take a moment to think about any limitations you’ve placed on your life or that you’ve allowed others to place on it. Now think about what it would be like to be free of those limitations. What would your life be if anything were possible?” Nick Vujicic
“We are each on our own journey. Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be.” Aamnah Akram
6. Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali and Others. Hearing from others with Parkinson’s gives us a reality check, be it Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali, Kirk Gibson, Linda Ronstadt, or Ozzy Osbourne. Parkinson’s makes no distinction between people who get this disorder, from famous movie/TV stars to the greatest athletes; this disorder knows no boundaries.
“When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I’ve never really noticed the difference. I’ve always dreamt big.” Michael J. Fox
“Parkinson’s is my toughest fight. No, it doesn’t hurt. It’s hard to explain. I’m being tested to see if I’ll keep praying, to see if I’ll keep my faith.” Muhammad Ali
“It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.” Michael J. Fox,
With Parkinson’s, it’s like you’re in the middle of the street and you’re stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don’t know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don’t live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There’s all kinds of room in that space. Michael J. Fox, Good Housekeeping
“For everything this disease has taken, something with greater value has been given–sometimes just a marker that points me in a new direction that I might not otherwise have traveled. So, sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson’s, I’ve learned that what is important is making that one step count; always looking up.” Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up
“So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy’s big challenge is not having a Parkinson’s patient for a husband. It’s having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson’s patient.” Michael J. Fox
“People with Parkinson’s are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.” Helen MIrren
“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.” Michael J. Fox
“I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson’s. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there’s freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn’t have otherwise found myself in.” Michael J. Fox
“We may each have our own individual Parkinson’s, but we all share one thing in common. Hope.” Michael J. Fox
“My life is so filled with positives and blessings, and so filled with things I wouldn’t trade for the world.” Michael J. Fox
“It’s not a death sentence but it affects certain nerves in your body. You have a good day, a good day, then a really bad day.” Sharon Osbourne, wife of Rock star Ozzy Osbourne
“They’re my air, you know. I feel better. I’ve owned up to the fact that I have… a case of Parkinson’s. And I just hope they hang on and they’re there for me because I need them.” Rock star Ozzy Osbourne
“No matter what science can do for people living with Parkinson’s, we must prepare our brain and body to face all difficulties.” Nikolas Koukoulakis “
After I was diagnosed, I went on a rollercoaster of emotions, from theinitial shock, to disbelief, despair, sadness, anger and resignation, until I finally became more resilient and positive.” New Zealand-based author Robyn Cotton
“While I wouldn’t wish a Parkinson’s diagnosis on anyone, it has brought with it gifts that I’m truly grateful for.” Author and blogger Jo Yaldren“
“Linda Ronstadt doesn’t sing at all anymore — at least not in a way that her fans are able to hear. “I can sing in my brain,” the 76-year-old explained when she recently sat down with TODAY’s Maria Shriver. In 2013, after years of struggling with her vocals, Ronstadt was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. However, she later learned that she actually had a Parkinson’s-like disorder called progressive supranuclear palsy.”
Instead, Kirk Gibson counsels those with Parkinson’s with the zeal of a missionary. “Always looking to find a way to make people feel much better about where they’re at in life,” Gibson says.
7. Happiness and the Authentic Self. Of course, everyone wants to be happy. Yet, that happiness took a nose-dive following our diagnosis of Parkinson’s. Only you can embrace life and joy in the presence of Parkinson’s; only you can determine if happiness still resides in you. Likewise, your life probably also dramatically changed when diagnosed with Parkinson’s. No matter what anyone says about you, keep the sentiment of these words, “Always remember, your life matters now with Parkinson’s as much as before Parkinson’s. Stay hopeful as you navigate adversity. Stay you despite your Parkinson’s.” Frank C. Church
” Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.” Alexandre Dumas
I found that this Parkinson’s does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not. Billy Graham
“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” Tony Deliso
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” Gabriel García Márquez
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” Jonathan Safran Foer
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” Tom Bodett
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” Abraham Lincoln
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn
“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” Paul Simon
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” Sylvia Plath
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” Guillaume Apollinaire
“I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.” Brene Brown
“People are always judging you based on where you’re from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you’re going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It’s all about being authentic.” Andre Carson
“The authentic self is the soul made visible.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
“It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.” Zachary Quint
“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” Brené Brown
“Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.” Celestine Chua
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” Nicole Sobon
8. Mindfulness and Life (Thích Nhất Hạnh, Lao Tzu, Brené Brown, and Others.) We have enough problems, just dealing with Parkinson’s every day. Having a mechanism or a process to remove yourself from this Parkinson’s life, do it, practice mindfulness. The ability to still your mind, even for a few minutes, could be life-changing. And living well is always a goal. So, never forget the words of Thích Nhất Hạnh, “Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” Amit Ray
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” Natalie Babbitt
“The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.” Brené Brown
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” Paulo Coelho,
“When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Inspirations knock and hang around for a while and wait for some kind of response, which is the beginning of a creative act.” Thomas Moore
“The teacher however, can only lead the student to the correct gate, he cannot compel him to go further, Somewhere inside the gates masses gold and diamonds lie hidden. It is up to the student to go beyond the door and into the inner rooms to search for the treasure. So in order to acquire the art one must have a determined and enduring mind, ready to persevere and study hard. If one relies entirely on the teacher one will never find the treasure.” Master T.T. Liang “Tai Chi Chuan for Health and Self Defense”
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
Lao Tzu
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
9. Medicine, Science, Education, and Ancient Philosophers. There is no shortage of outstanding minds from recent times to ancient history, from Einstein to Socrates. The richness and significance in their messages have not been diminished with time.
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” Albert Einstein
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” Jules Vern
“James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?” Khaled Hosseini
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Will Duran
“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding…” Brian Greene
“Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.” William Harvey
“It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”Socrates
“Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.” Galen
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” Hippocrates
“Ars longa, /.vita brevis / occasio praeceps / experimentum periculos um, / iudicium difficile.
“Life is short, / [the] art long, / opportunity fleeting,/ experiment dangerous, / judgment difficult.” Hippocrates
“Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. ” Robert Louis Stevenson (who himself suffered with poor health)
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Neurons that fire together wire together. Mental states become neural traits. Day after day, your mind is building your brain. This is what scientists call experience-dependent neuroplasticity,” Rick Hanson
“Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.” Andrew Weil
“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.” Santiago Ramón y Cajal
“Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.” Hippocrates
“Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.” Rudolf Steiner
10. Exercise. An essential mantra for Parkinson’s should be “Exercise is Medicine.” What is important to understand is that what was once shown in animal models of Parkinson’s has been extended to humans with Parkinson’s. Exercising often is best, but exercising some is still okay, and both are far better than not exercising at all (NOTE: Please consult with your Neurologist before starting any exercise program).
“It’s a lifestyle, it’s something you do the rest of your life,” LaLanne said. “How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.”Jack LaLanne
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” Lou Holtz
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
“Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise – the quadrangle of health.” William Osler
“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being” Plato
“Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.” John Lubbock
“Your muscles know nothing. It’s your brain. Exercise is something you’ve got to do the rest of your life. It’s a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You’ve got to work at it.” Jack LaLanne
“Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.” Jack LaLanne
“The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.” William H. Cooper
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.” Chalene Johnson”
“It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.” Jack LaLanne
“Exercise is labor without weariness.” Samuel Johnson
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Journey with Parkinson's 