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.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

This 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.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It’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.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Mindfulness 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.

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

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.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I 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.

Sleep is the best meditation.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

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

I have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

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.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

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

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

When 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.

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.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Life well spent is long.

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

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.