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Quotes About Wellness

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.
~ Mircea Eliade
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If man made it, don't eat it.
~ Jack LaLanne
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
~ Herodotus
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
~ Harvey Cushing
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
~ John Forbes Nash
Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.
~ Mike Murdock
More men die from overeating than undernourishment.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
~ Hippocrates
Man is ill because he is never still.
~ Paracelsus
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
~ Robert Bly
Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.
~ Joseph Pilates
The healthy man is the thin man. But you don't need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that's all.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
~ Hippocrates
A man is as old as his arteries.
~ Thomas Sydenham
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.
~ Agatha Christie
When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed
~ Alija Izetbegovic
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
~ Carl Jung
A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.
~ Colonel Sanders
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
~ Mark Twain
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
~ Seneca the Younger
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
~ Orison Swett Marden