Quotes About Wellness

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat. The

building is medicine for free.

There are many different types of illness and people get sick for different reasons. Sometimes it's easy to see what is wrong with the person; they may have a rash or a bad cough. But other times it's because of how they feel inside and the things they say and do, or can't do.

When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you eat a piece of mass-produced carrot cake that contains 32 ingredients, your metabolism screeches to a halt while your body tries to figure out what all those things are that you just swallowed, and what it is supposed to do with them. Therefore, the problem isn't "fat", its piles of excess ingredients your body's stacked on shelves and vowed to sort out later.

You will usually discover that the creative process itself is truly the most healing part of any art therapy experience.

we may stand at safe distance from one another, so that the ill do not infect the well.

After a little time, we began to learn some of what they had known: that a compound of mullein and rue, sweet cicely and mustard oil makes an excellent syrup for quieting a cough; that boiled willow bark eases aches and fevers; that betony, bruised for a green plaster, speeds mending of wounds and scrapes.

Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary lives.

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

The body needs to be thrown out of equilibrium from time to time, it needs a good poisoning.

Everybody gets depressed; it's totally normal.

A garden is the best alternative therapy

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.

Medicines are not meat to live by.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

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.

Beans beans the magical fruit the more you eat the more you toot the more you eat the better you feel so let's eat beans for every meal.

Suddenly I began to wonder how to please so many people. do I take the magnesium citrate? What about the coffee enema? Do I do both? Do I do the abdominal message or the colonic? Do I tell the doctors about each other? East meets West in Gilda's body: Western medicine down my throat, Eastern medicine up my butt.

When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier. —DIANE VON FURSTENBERG