Quotes About Wellness

Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

A piece of work that will make sick men whole.

But are not some whole that we must make sick?

Is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humors Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night?

depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.

By pausing, if only for a few seconds and taking a few slow, deep breaths, we can begin to slow down our heart rate and relax our tensed muscles. We can then focus more effectively on what response will best advance our interests.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

I am not agitated. I am only agitated when someone advises me to reduce my diet.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.

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The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'.

If it wasn't for his anxiety, he'd get no aerobics at all.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to a hundred.

He neglected not his own body, and praised not those that neglected theirs.  In like manner, he blamed the custom of some who eat too much, and afterwards use violent exercises; but he approved of eating till nature be satisfied, and of a moderate exercise after it, believing that method to be an advantage to health, and proper to unbend and divert the mind. 

When soldiers are sick or wounded, doctors can fix them up, but you've got to save them from falling ill in the first place.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Running should be free, man.

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Everyone is built for running.

For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated soley by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.