Quotes About Wellness

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Sometimes it's easier to care for others than it is to care for yourself.

She began using B vitamins, magnesium, and 5-HTP twice daily, along with tryptophan and a melatonin complex at night. Sure enough, within five days she clearly began to feel better.

Why Anxiety Hurts, and How You Can Fix It

I don't see the mind, body, and spirit as separate things—they are just different reflections of a unified whole.

what determines how well you survive chronic stress is how you react to it and whether you are able to shut it down.

This book focuses on ways to create innate health and resilience as a key to resolving anxiety in everyday life

In just a few decades, dramatic changes have occurred in our relationship to stress. There are many illnesses that are now associated with stress—and they have become epidemic in scope.

while life has always been stressful, there is something different about how it affects us

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

We have been most successful, however, when our patients return to their homes and get on with their lives and never need to see us again. They are grateful, no doubt, but happy to put us and the horror of their illness behind them. Perhaps they never quite realized just how dangerous the operation had been and how lucky they were to have recovered so well. Whereas the surgeon, for a while, has known heaven, having come very close to hell.

How are you feeling?' I asked. 'Fine,' he replied with a tired smile. 'Well done!' I replied, as I think patients need to be congratulated for their surviving just as much as the surgeons should be congratulated for doing their job well. 'It's

But it seems to me now that it no longer matters if I never finish. I will try not to wait for the end, but I hope to be ready to leave, booted and spurred, when it comes. It is enough that I am well for a little longer, that I have been lucky to be part of a family – past, present and future – that I can still be useful, that there is still work to be done.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

to be a successful manager, let alone—dare I say—a great leader, maybe you don't have to be wonderful so much as more or less emotionally healthy and clearheaded.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

The iron is the best antidepressant I have every found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the body and the mind have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.