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Quotes About Wellness

Tea is the symbol of and antidote to civilization.
~ Terri Guillemets
It would fare but ill with many of us if we were left to superintend our own digestion and circulation. 'Bless me!' one would cry, 'I forgot to wind up my heart this morning! To think that it has been standing still for the last three hours!' 'I can't walk with you this afternoon,' a friend would say, 'as I have no less than eleven dinners to digest. I had to let them stand over from last week, being so busy, and my doctor says he will not answer for the consequences if I wait any longer!'
~ Lewis Carroll
For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
~ Aldous Huxley
But one thing, at least, is certain, that no system can be satisfactory, much less successful, which does not provide for the healthy training of the whole being of the child, dividing and distinguishing mental and bodily exercise if it will, but at the same time co-ordinating them in due relations to each other...
~ E. Warre, 1884
Most of us have become deaf to our own bodies, which is why we are out of tune.
~ Terri Guillemets
Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug! Use the body God gave you, don't let it rot.
~ Terri Guillemets
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
~ William Shakespeare
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?
~ Jason Love
Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one.
~ Terri Guillemets
If your body's not right, the rest of you will go wrong. Take care of yourself.
~ Terri Guillemets
Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
~ Terri Guillemets
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds; for it is the mind that makes the body: that is my secret, and the secret of all the true healers.
~ Bernard Shaw
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
~ Latin proverb
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet...
~ Part of a nursery rhyme
To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.
~ @jacques_lakan, tweet, 2022
As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Someone has to stand up and say that the answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach.
~ Bill Maher, 2007
Wouldn't it be awful if spinach hain't really healthful after all th' trouble it takes t'git the sand out of it?
~ Kin Hubbard, 1929
For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.
~ Terri Guillemets
Persons living very entirely on vegetables are seldom of a plump and succulent habit.
~ William Cullen
Good health, yes, is partly genes Really though it's more about greens And other types of healthful things
~ Terri Guillemets