The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.
Nikola TeslaThis happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Hermann HesseIt is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai LamaI have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.
Haruki MurakamiI don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
Wayne DyerIt’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Thich Nhat HanhThere’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.
Dolly PartonI have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.
Dolly PartonPart of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.
Dwayne JohnsonWalking is man’s best medicine.
HippocratesI’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
Joel OsteenI’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.
EminemWhen I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.
DJ KhaledThe only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma BombeckAll I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.
Tom BradyThe greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody AllenI like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
Joel OsteenIf you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.
Jocko WillinkAll parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.
Tom BradyProspering just doesn’t have to do with money.
Joel OsteenEven when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Dalai LamaThe important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph AddisonThere’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.
Richard BransonIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai LamaThe first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John RuskinAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciSome people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.
Jocko WillinkReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph AddisonWithout health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.
BuddhaA feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauHome is where you feel at home and are treated well.
Dalai LamaI really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.
Tom BradyApart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‚stalker’s eye,‘ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.
Robert Baden-PowellLook at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
John C. MaxwellWalking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas JeffersonOur growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F. KennedyI have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.
Marilyn MonroeI have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
Anthony HopkinsWorking out anchors my day.
Dwayne JohnsonI have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.
Sunil ChhetriI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma BombeckHealthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston ChurchillAdopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
Jordan PetersonI don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.
Amy WinehouseSubordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel JohnsonAs a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
Frank OceanMan does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI love being active.
Dolly PartonI know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
Jackie ChanSleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia WoolfThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EpicurusThe main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma GandhiA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John SteinbeckMindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.
Thich Nhat HanhThe best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon BonaparteIt’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.
Jane GoodallCultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBreathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.
Thich Nhat Hanh