Quotes About Wellness

And lowering your blood pressure by deep breathing or meditation—or even a healthy swearing session inside your closed car—has fewer side effects than any pill.

Yet illness had taught her already that the body was bound by no rules but its own.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)

Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self neglect.

I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.

for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery

she ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book.

he found he was suffering from laugh-deficit disorder.

I read to keep from being sad.

She said you need to eat well, say prayers without fail each morning and night, and avoid drinking strong spirits. One problem. Drinking strong spirits is how I pray.

isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

A Guide To Moving On: 1) Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others. 2) Cultivate new friendships. 3) Let go in order to receive. 4) Love yourself. (Loving myself meant eating, sleeping, and exercising - taking care of myself emotionally and physically. It meant taking care of myself spiritually, too.)

Loving myself meant eating, sleeping, and exercising—taking care of myself emotionally and physically.

I'm being very selfish with myself right now. Taking care of me, feeding my own soul.

If you don't take care of yourself, no one else will.

There's more to life than work and more work.

Exercise daily—walk with the Lord.

Your experiences today will influence the molecular composition of your body for the next two to three months," he tells his audience, "or, perhaps, for the rest of your life. Plan your day accordingly.

Your brain needs exercise, just like your body," he said. "A lazy brain does no one any good.

There's nothing wrong with me"—I'm surprised I let those words out. But it's always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

It's primal, the need to tell. It's not about the listener but the storyteller. In some cultures, not telling your story is regarded as a sign of mental illness.

Periodic stress does not harm the body, but ongoing chronic stress causes lasting damage.

But how come it's always the poor who are expected to eat the food that's good for them no matter how it tastes?

I never can understand why most people imagine a bed – some sort of bed: any sort of bed – to be a prerequisite of sleep.