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Quotes About Wellness

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
~ English proverb
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Physician, heal thyself.
~ Bible
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
~ Juvenal
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
~ Bible
A feeble body weakens the mind.
~ JeanJacques Rousseau
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
~ Sara Jordan
Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.
~ Kathryn Murray
Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.
~ Ted Bengermino
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
~ Joan Crawford
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
~ Norman Cousins
When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.
~ Michael Hirsch
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
~ Caskie Stinnet
In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
~ Truman Capote
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
~ Elizabeth Prentiss
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A little of what you fancy does you good.
~ Marie Lloyd
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
~ Gail Sheehy
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
~ Robert C. Peale
Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Prevention is better than cure.
~ Erasmus
Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.
~ Buddhist Proverb