Quotes About Wellness

I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

there was nothing wrong: just a touch of the back-door trots - not the flux, for there was no sign of blood, no spotting in the mustard. 'I know how to take care o' myself: not the first time I've had a run of the squitters and collywobbles.

Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn't let the body live, it doesn't let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a thousand years old.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

Her preferred form of exercise, she told Wendy, was stress. "Clench muscles, hold for twelve hours, release for a count of five, then clench again.

Drink champagne! It's advertised in the Tribune as a "health" drink. Drink champagne while listening to Bach and Beethoven. It's a fine preventative.

My body needs it—the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.

happiness is something from which fever is absent.

At bottom I hate all this pampering we give each other, the moment we learn that another is ill. Why shouldn't one enjoy his illness too? One gets ill sometimes just to be alone for a while. It's a way the body has of conquering the mind.

People are miserable and tense because they don't make love enough.

Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.

Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity.

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

Recent studies at the Public Health Institute in California confirm that hostility and resentment tear down your immune system and double your risk of heart attack, cancer and even diabetes. Bitterness makes you sick!

Bless the Lord, O my soul . . . who heals all thy diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).

Clark always says that you can be thin or you can be happy, and, Arthur, I have already tried thin.

Arthur, you're going to have to figure something out. You see all these men over fifty, these skinny men with mustaches. Imagine all the dieting and exercise and effort of fitting into your suits from when you were thirty! And then what? You're still a dried-up old man. Screw that. Clark always says you can be thin or you can be happy, and, Arthur, I have already tried thin.

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.