Quotes About Wellness

Golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible.

Verses of veggies poems of fruit dotted with seeds raw green rhymes in melodious bodies

But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. Think of a man's swinging dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought by him!

Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.

A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.

The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.

What we all need is enough vacation every day so that we can face each morning with health sufficient to do our work in gladness. That is to say, we need enough of a play-spell every day to keep us in good physical condition.

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

Sitting is the new smoking.

Sitting kills, moving heals.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body...

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

Keep the air. Nature says, 'Thou shalt walk, skate, swim, ride, run.' When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes & hats & clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.

So neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul; and this is the reason why the cure of many diseases is unknown to the physicians, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well... For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

Treat the patient, not the X-ray.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

By chase our long-lived fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend.

There are in America about fifty million people who, from time to time, set up chemical explosions in their internal economy in the hope that good health will follow. The worst about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

Dr. Tilden is... a medical heretic. He has broken away entirely from the tenets of the regular school of medicine and burnt the bridges behind him: he does not resort to medicine as a cure for sickness, but cures by correcting the patient's diet and other habits of living.