Quotes About Wellness

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

When it is acute, we call it disease; when it is chronic, we call it nature. It is a disease

A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. He must not fast, or torture his flesh. For, says the Gita, "He who fasts and he who eats too much, he who keeps awake and he who sleeps much, he who works too much and he who does no work, none of these can be Yogis.

Life is too short to work so hard.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

The thicker, the sicker.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Everyone should be his own physician. We ought to assist and not force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can produce digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable ills? Patience.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

You and Psychiatry. (You and Psychiatry, Menninger and Leaf, Scribner's, New York, 1948)

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

'Healing ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

I like sleeping at the minute, I don't really get the chance to do that.

Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state when communication breaks down. We become ill when our waves are out of sync.

Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.