Quotes About Wellness

Life is about balance; too much and too little can kill. The best way to balance life is setting your boundaries and learning to say enough.

I love sleep, but I hate going to bed early.

Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.

He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.

Le bonheur seul est salutaire pour le corps

Not to mention the medicine! I take nine pills every day, each for something different—blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, tranquilizer. Need I go on? I look completely normal, but I take nine pills a day for that.

therapy and its medications are a luxury.

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

Aging was essentially decay, the exhaustion of the body's ability to repair and renew itself.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

Do you think preservatives make you live longer, or do they kill you off, asks Fran. She has often wondered about this.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Knowing the hard limits to our cognitive capacity and the huge cost of working long hours should not be an intractable problem to address. We have a century of data and a roll call of the disastrous consequences that follow those who insist that heroic hours are a proof of commitment to an employer. Companies that measure work by hours could make themselves smarter by the simple act of measuring contribution by output and rewarding those who go home.

We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

she had always struggled with being motivated to eat well, which in her case meant that she also struggled with her weight. Now, for the first time, she understood why it is essential to eat well. She finally felt motivated by a desire to achieve a high level of vibrancy, which in turn would allow her to establish a clear channel for her Divine source to guide her.

Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.

Life has a way of turning things around. Those who mourn well know this. As a result, they also live well--with courage and curiosity.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

The soul sickens and heals the body, if it has sufficient existential motivation.

There is a healing force within each of us, a kind of divine physician seated within our minds and in communication with every cell of our being. This force is the intelligence that drives the immune system.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

diseases of an unromantic sort,