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Quotes About Wellness

Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.
~ Paulette Jiles
He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.
~ Paulette Jiles
Why exactly do you go to yoga classes? You're such a calm, well-balanced person, and a woman who knows what she wants. Aren't you wasting your time?" My heart starts beating again. I don't answer. I simply smile and stroke his face.
~ Paulo Coelho
He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one's nerve centers against a tree trunk. For hours he discoursed on the physical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants.
~ Paulo Coelho
A girevik is characterized by a balanced development of all organs and musculature with significant hypertrophy of the muscles of the shoulder girdle." (Rasskazov, 1993).
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Time to start by buying a 300 pound Olympic weight set: a barbell with plates.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Before embarking on a KB program, naturally you have to get a pair of kettlebells. The detective from a popular Russian thriller decides to become a better man, buys a kettlebell, and tries to sneak it into his office so he could work out after the hours. As he is huffing and puffing up the stairs, another cop sees him and raises his eyebrows: "Evidence?" —"No, private property.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Get a light dumbbell, say ten pounds for an average lady and two to three times as much for a gentleman, and do one arm snatches two to three times a week followed by ab work and back and hamstring stretches. Do as much as you can stand; the sets, reps, and rest periods are up to you. Just make sure to have your heart checked beforehand and slowly ease into the program. And do not forget to synchronize your breathing with your movement, otherwise you will wilt in no time flat.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Train 2-7 times a week. Try to complete your workout in 45 min or less. Vary the length of your workouts, for example Monday 30 min, Tuesday 45 min, Wednesday 20 min, Thursday off, Friday 35 min.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Don't try to get yourself smoked; this will come soon enough. A 30-minute practice is about right. When done, you should feel energized rather than wiped out. You should hardly be sore the day after.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!
~ Pearl S. Buck
Mind and body were well or ill together.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.
~ Unknown
Chögyam Trungpa put it, "Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
~ Pema Chodron
We can get angry: it's even healthy to get angry from time to time.
~ Pope Francis
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
~ Terence Stamp
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
~ Hippocrates
I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.
~ Dolph Lundgren
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
~ Walt Whitman
Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.
~ Jean Toomer
Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.
~ Ken Cohen