Quotes About Wellness

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.

People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

Men's willingness to downplay weakness and pain is so great that it has been named as a factor in their shorter life span. The ten years of difference in longevity between men and women turns out to have little to do with genes. Men wait longer to acknowledge that they are sick, take longer to get help, and once they get treatment do not comply with it as well as women do.

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.