Quotes About Wellness

Every philosopher should be an athlete. If he is not, let us suspect his philosophy.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.

because we have two legs and travelling on foot is the right speed for human beings. Walking sorts out your problems and anxieties, and calms your worries. Living from day to day, from inspiration to inspiration, much of what I have learned as a Jain has come from wandering. Sometimes, even my dreams are of walking.

To the sick man sweet water tastes bitter in the mouth.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay

Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

I am all right. I am fine. I am alive, and I will stay that way.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits.

ability to get by with no more than four hours' sleep—plus an occasional catnap—was no exaggeration. "Sleep," he maintained, "is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality, and opportunities.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.

As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up.

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.

Every smile makes you a day younger.

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

YOGA becomes the destroyer of pain for

should not be "losing 10 pounds," it should be something intrinsically motivating, such as "Fitting into my sexy black pants (without gastrointestinal distress)." Suddenly, your weight-loss mission starts looking more like a playful quest, with frequent victories along the way, and less like a daily weigh-in on the bathroom scale

Once they've helped patients identify specific and vivid signs of progress, they pivot to a second question, which is perhaps even more important. It's the Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?