To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I hid myself in food.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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

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

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

I like to let things breathe.

Part 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.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

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.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I think hygiene is so important.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.