Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

The 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.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

I 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.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

It’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.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

People want to feel hopeful.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

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

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Adopt 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.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

I’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.

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

The soul is healed by being with children.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Even 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.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I still work out on a daily basis.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I 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.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.