wellness quotes

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I love being active.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

Precaution is better than cure.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

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

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

The first wealth is health.

I eat next to nothing.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Touring is hard on the body.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.