B. J. Palmer Quotes

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment.

The power that made the body, HEALS THE BODY. It happens no other way.

Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies... yet the auto has replaceable parts.

Smile and smile often. Smile regularly. Smile when you don't feel like it and you will feel like it when you smile.

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.

Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Nature needs no help, just no interference.

Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects.

All the drugs in the world cannot adjust a subluxated vertebrae

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.

We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right!

How do you make a dimmed light bright again? Remove the interference. How do you increase health in a dis-eased person? The same way!

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?

Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Healing is an inside job.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

God is so good. Always follow your dreams, own your Purpose! Embrace God's Anointing

To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.

Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture.

Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.