Quotes About Wellness

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. —Voltaire

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Pills and Skills Model, Instead of asking your doctor what can I take, ask your doctor what can I do.

Let good digestion wait on appetite and health on both.

Now good digestion wait on appetite,And health on both!

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

Some griefs are med'cinable.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Deep breathing at an open window is a wonderful thing unless you live in Los Angeles or down the block from an asbestos plant. Everybody knows that filling your lungs with oxygen is good, but not many people do it. It's like most of the choices you have in life. You know inside what is right. Whether you do it is up to you.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

If you take short breaths, you will tend to have short bursts of attention and to speak in short sentences. Deep, full breaths will enable you to speak in longer, more complex sentences and to form deeper thoughts. Underwater swimming is the best remedy for over-short breath.

Relax, and empty your mind and heart of all thoughts. Breathe in gently and deeply, so that the incoming cosmic energy fills the energy center at your abdomen.

You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100.

The most beautiful words in the English language are not "I love you," but "It's benign."

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

He who has a weak constitution becomes stronger by manual exercise than a robust man without it.

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.