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Quotes About Well-being

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. My HMO also says that's the best they can do for me.
~ Charlotte Lobb
If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!
~ Charlotte Mason
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
~ Chaz Bono
What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. 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. Whether
~ Cheryl Mendelson
It's such a cliché, but it's true: you must set boundaries. Fucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I'm not suggesting one deny negative emotions, but rather that you accept them and move through them by embracing the power we have to keep from wallowing in emotions that don't serve us well.
~ Cheryl Strayed
So what's been happening to you?" his friend asked. "You have insomnia, you're off your feed, and you couldn't get it up a couple of times. So what?" He shook his head, laughing again. "I really don't think that if you went to a doctor and described those symptoms, he would shake his head and say"—and Jerry's voice shifted into a very bad imitation of Bela Lugosi's—" 'We are dealing here with the curse of the Undead!
~ Chet Williamson
Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Somehow among all our use of antibiotic medicine and antibacterial soap our souls are becoming sanitized as well — don't let it happen to you!
~ Terri Guillemets, 2007
For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
~ Aldous Huxley
...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
~ Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands.
~ Terri Guillemets
Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.
~ Flemish Proverb
Employment is essential to our purity, happiness, and well-being.
~ Thomas Clark, 1800s
Good health, yes, is partly genes Really though it's more about greens And other types of healthful things
~ Terri Guillemets
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Morning walks — rich man walks to digest food a poor to earn.
~ Kiran Bantawa, "Morning Walks"
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.
~ German proverb
HYGIENE. Bacteriology made moral...
~ H. L. Mencken
Better six feet apart than six feet under.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.
~ Terri Guillemets
Gratitude is as important for feeding your soul as eating is important for feeding your body.
~ J.L.W. Brooks