Quotes About Wellness

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

What physicians call perspirable matter is that vapour which passes off from our bodies, from the lungs, and through the pores of the skin. The quantity of this is said to be five eighths of what we eat.—Author.

Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,

The best doctor gives least Medicine.

made the greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.

to take upon us by inoculation when in health a disorder of which some die, requires great clearness of knowledge that it is our duty to do so.

Rarely use [sex] but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.

The athletic sort of Backson - one of the many common varieties - is concerned with physical fitness, he says. But for some reason, he sees it as something that has to be pounded in from the outside, rather than built up from the inside. Therefore, he confuses exercise with work. He works when he works, works when he exercises, and, more often than not, works when he plays. Work, work, work.

One disease, long life; no disease, short life.

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly healthy and neglect their weaknesses.

Benjamin James Sadock

We advise tea for the whole nation and for every nation. We advise men and women to drink tea daily; hour by hour if possible; beginning with ten cups a day, and increasing the dose to the utmost quantity that the stomach can contain and the kidneys eliminate. [Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]

We did a little yoga together. Sometimes he let me give him a massage. But when I mentioned meditation to him, he said that the only meditations he knew were those of Descartes and Husserl.

I'm going to swim as much as possible. I'm in poor shape physically. I've put on weight (as always when I'm tired) and I feel as heavy as a bag of lead.

In 2010, I consulted with President Clinton after his bypass grafts occluded and encouraged him to make healthy lifestyle changes including a whole-foods, plant-based diet low in refined carbohydrates.

If I eat refined carbs or foods that have the potential to bloat, I notice the baby pouch again.

Our mental state fuels our emotions, and our bodies reflect those emotions.

I'm always on the move, but I don't want my hectic schedule to be reflected in how I look.

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

If you take care of yourself and try to look nice, it's reflective of how you feel about yourself.

When you feel healthy, it boosts your confidence level and it reflects on your face.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.