“Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home.”
"We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It’s the disease of the time."
- Cheryl Mendelson
Awareness
"Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else."
- Cheryl Mendelson
Connection to Earth
"What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping."
- Cheryl Mendelson
Contentment
"Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits."
- Cheryl Mendelson
Achievement
"Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted."
- Cheryl Mendelson
Peace
"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."
- Diane McLaren
Health
"Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart."
- Gene Tunney
Health
"Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out."
- Jack LaLanne
Health
"Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom."
- Jack LaLanne
Health
"To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise."
- Gene Tunney
Health