Quotes about Wellness

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)

True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die.

The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts.

the best way to prepare for suffering is to work on a strong, supportive life when you're healthy.

Dr. Brand said, in a comment that has always stayed with me, "A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part.

He made a powerful distinction between healing and curing: Curing involves the resolution of the illness but was not always possible. Healing, he said, was coming to wholeness and could happen whether or not the illness was curable.

I have always eaten well.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If you experience a health challenge, Life is inviting you to love yourself. In other words, no matter what your problem is, there is only one answer: loving yourself.

The growing "epidemic" of stress, lifestyle diseases, and autoimmune diseases has no root cause according to mainstream medicine, yet that root cause seems simple to us: it's really an epidemic of not loving the self.