Quotes About Wellness

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

I despair of the term 'clean eating'...it necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad.

Round still, but that's fine. Feeling good outside and in. Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect. The perfect size is happy.

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

In 2005, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that eating three and a half ounces (100 grams) of dark chocolate daily decreased blood pressure and significantly improved sugar metabolism by increasing sensitivity to insulin.

With our busy lives, for most of us, relaxation is not a priority. When to do nothing." I ask people in yoga classes what they do to relax, a common answer is our —J. B. Priestley contemporary types of "relaxation"—watching TV, competitive and spectator sports events, walking, reading, and so on.

It is just as easy to bring death to man, and I've done so. It's harder to keep hold of life, harder still to maintain a grasp on health. Those are the tasks to which we must keep our minds.

These days when he thinks about happiness and contentment, he thinks in terms of milligrams.

Jimmy Buffett, Mr. Margaritaville, said that if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Food that's good for you should taste good!

Let me speak as a physician, Lady Blue: the primary cause of your melancholy is that for too long you have lacked contact with the earth, with water, with green and growing plants. You are not the kind of person who can live apart from these things. Like a wild bird in a cage, you will lose the will to live. You have to get outside.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.

ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.