Quotes About Exercise

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. "Pray without ceasing"—maintain the childlike habit of offering up prayer in your heart to God all the time.

If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God's Spirit.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

The foundation of success in life is good health:

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I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

Under stress, an unexercised heart will explode in frustration or fury. If the situation is especially tense, that exploding heart may be hurled like a fragment grenade toward the source of its pain. But a heart that has been consistently exercised through conscious engagement with suffering is more likely to break open instead of apart. Such a heart has learned how to flex to hold tension in a way that expands its capacity for both suffering and joy.

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Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.

Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise us all to put more childlike play into our lives. I think it's great advice: play is good for our spirits, our bodies, and our minds. It teaches us, both dogs and humans, to coordinate our efforts with others, to learn to inhibit ourselves even when excited, and to share the ball even when we want it for ourselves.

While I was explaining to my own doctor that I was planning to undertake some serious exercise, I happened to mention that I thought I had lost quite a bit of weight since my last physical. "You didn't lose it," he said. "It just slipped around to your rear where you can't see it.

For instance, it tends to be easier for us to picture how frequently eating a load of greasy fast food meals is going to risk our heart health, but it's harder for us to recognize how not exercising can place us at the same health risk. While we may actively avoid those oily take-out in an attempt to maintain a healthy lifestyle, we aren't as likely to start an exercise regimen to support that same goal. It just doesn't have the same psychological impact.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

Entonces de repente –éste era el sentido del ejercicio-, el odio brotaba en él con violencia de orgasmo, estallando como una tormenta contra aquellos olores que habían osado ofender su ilustre nariz. Caía sobre ellos como granizo sobre un campo de trigo, los pulverizaba como una furioso huracán y los ahogaba bajo un diluvio purificador de agua destilada. Tan justa era su cólera y tan grande su venganza.

Some people engage in meaningful pursuits, and this, I argue, makes their lives better. But people don't have to think about meaning for this to work. People who mountain-climb, for instance, might have an entirely mistaken theory of what climbing does for them, just as someone who exercises might have an entirely wrong theory of the benefits of exercise.

Roy Baumeister and his colleagues. They posit that mental effort (or self-control, willpower, or grit) actually is a lot like a muscle. Like a muscle, it can work for only so long before it gets tired; like a muscle, it can be strengthened through exercise.

what really drops glucose is exercise—but, contrary to the predictions of the glucose hypothesis, exercise tends to make you better at subsequent tasks requiring mental effort, not worse.

Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.

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.

An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.

You don't need more than a handful of exercises to build a bigger, stronger body. In fact, to get started, you need to learn only four basic lifts—squat, bench press, overhead press, and deadlift