Quotes About Lifestyle

I realized I need to do a better job of opening up other interests because my interests are sports, my family, my faith and my friends. That's it. That's all I got.

LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

You smoke too much. You stay up too late at night. You don't get enough exercise. At your age you ought to be playing Rugby football for the old boys of your school.

even if we owned the world with a hog-tight fence around it, we could eat only three meals a day and sleep in one bed at a time—even a ditch digger can do that; and he will probably eat with more gusto and sleep more peacefully than Rockefeller.

The seven years I spent with the Arabs convinced me that the neurotics, the insane, the drunks of America and Europe are the product of the hurried and harassed lives we live in our so-called civilization.

we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

We do not just hear what Jesus said to do and try to do that. Rather, we also notice what he did, and we do that too. We

men of the modern world exist in a continual and flagrant antagonism between their consciences and their way of life."1 There

So the idea conveyed is an absolutely fatal one - that to follow him simply means to try to behave as he did when he was on the spot, under pressure or persecution or in the spotlight. There is no realization that what he did in such cases was, in large and essential measure, the natural outflow of the life he lived when not on the spot.

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

Theology" is a stuffy word, but it should be an everyday one.

using a home computer, or commuting. On average

Researchers find that the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the last thirty years tracks the explosion of computers and tech gadgets in people's lives—and suspect this is no accidental correlation.

some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health

One thing I know people will say to me is 'Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?'" "That of course is an inane idea," Ishmael said. "The Leaver life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of the community live—and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers.

No, the founders of our culture didn't just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it, and the whip they used was this meme: Growing all your own food is the best way to live. Nothing less could imaginably have done this amazing trick.

"It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where every day is your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make every day a play-day…"

When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !