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Great Quotes and INSIGHTS of Wisdom...


Here are a few of my favorite messges that reflect so much of what I feel to be true in life
as we go about completing our mission on the way home.

I am always interested in learning more, so please feel free to e-mail
me YOUR pearls of wisdom so that we may share with others      





We must act on what we know.
It is not enough to know....  we must do!
Leonardo Di Vinci


Design is nothing more than creating
a comfortable place in which to work,
shop, heal, relax....and call home!
Deborah Burnett
Health and Wellness Design Authority



I Had a Dream
By Nevin Compton Trammell


I had a dream
that some force picked me up
and
put me down
in some new
and different town
that I had never seen before...
with small shops
and church towers with clocks
that told different times
and bells
that all chimed in rhymes

And no one was there
except an old couple
sitting in a parkside chair
each holding a flower
such a beautiful pair

Between them rested
an opened book
and I moved closer
to take a look
and there was nothing there
to see...
except a mirror
                   staring back at me


See with your heart and not
with your eyes,
for beauty lies.... everywhere
Karen Tucker


Without touch a baby dies,
the human heart aches
and the soul .... withers
Phylis Davis
Licensed Professional Counselor




Night
by William GAY
excerpt from the Lost Country

Cold vapors swirled the earth like groundfog.  Midnight maybe, perhaps later, it scarcely seemed to matter. 
The last ride had let him out on this road hours ago and he walked through a country, which in these shuttered hours, seemed uninhabited. 

Not even a dog barked. 

Just a steady cacophony of insects from the woods that fell silent at his approach...
and rose again with his passage, an owl from some timbered hollow so distant he might have dreamed it. 

Nothing on this road .....
and he thought he’d taken a wrong turn, but then it occurred to him, that on a journey such as this there are no wrong turns.  If all destinations are one, it matters little which road you take. 

The pale road was awash with moonlight as far as he could see, and in these clockless hours when the edges of things blur and the mind tugs gently at its moorings, it seemed to him that the road had never been traversed before... and once his footfalls honed away faint and fainter to ultimate nothingness
 
it would
     never
          be used again 




We don't stop playing because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop playing
Benjamin Franklin



Wrinkles only indicate
                                ...where smiles have been
Mark Twain



Color is Light and Light is Color
and without both ...you have darkness
Deborah Burnett
Health and Wellness Design Authority



COLOR is .... a wonder drug that
we use to self medicate, 
eliminate boredom, rattle our complacent cages,
and engage our ever awakening senses 
in order to live the best
... that life has to offer. 
Deborah Burnett
Health and Wellness Design Authority

 
            
As we examine past design trends 
in search of the future, we must never fail to realize that 
whatever develops does so because of the perceived and realized effect
that the new trend or lifestyle change has on the body and brain 
as it reacts to the surrounding geopolitical, social, economical and weather circumstances at hand
Deborah Burnett
Health and Wellness Design Authority



With our thoughts, we make our world
Buddha



How old would you be  ...
if you didn't know how old
you are?
Satchel Page
Jazz Musician



In design, whenever you have a problem,
you can do one of  two things: 
you can either hide or camouflage it, 
or, you can make the design decision
to accentuate the problem
area to make it look like
you intended to do this all along!
Deborah Burnett
Health and Wellness Design Authority



Sometimes our light goes out, 
but is blown back into flame by an
encounter with another human being.
Each of us owes the deepest thanks to
those who have rekindled our inner light
...with their breath of encouragement
 Albert Schweitzer



Only through education
and knowledge can positive change occur
Confucius



Without darkness, we would not know light.
Without sorrow, we could not embrace love.
Without hope, we are lost. 
And without an open forgiving heart we will never be found
Deborah Burnett
Health and Wellness Design Authority




Your imagination is your preview of life's upcoming attractions
Albert Einstein



Electricity is really just organized lighting
George Carlin
Comedian  



Worrying is the same thing
as banging your head against the wall.
It only feels good ....when you stop
John Powers
Motivational speaker



ADDICTION:  what was once done
for the sake of a reward,
is now continued to avoid a punishment 
Carol Hart, Ph.D 
Author " Secrets of Serotonin" 





Today was once our tomorrow. 
And our past....
was once our long awaited future
Deborah Burnett
Health and Wellness Design Authority


The purpose of science is simplicity...
and as we understand more things then everything becomes more simple!
Edward Teller
Theoretical physicist
Manhattan project 1940



We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them
Albert Einstein

 



Deborah Burnett is a nationally recognized health and wellness design authority and keynote presenter bridging the gap between science and evidence based epigenetic design which explores how the body and brain are affected by the interior environment. As a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine she specializes in research and design pertaining to how color, light, sound and daylight affect sleep.