Quotes about Wellness

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

It would fare but ill with many of us if we were left to superintend our own digestion and circulation. 'Bless me!' one would cry, 'I forgot to wind up my heart this morning! To think that it has been standing still for the last three hours!' 'I can't walk with you this afternoon,' a friend would say, 'as I have no less than eleven dinners to digest. I had to let them stand over from last week, being so busy, and my doctor says he will not answer for the consequences if I wait any longer!'

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.

As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

There are in America about fifty million people who, from time to time, set up chemical explosions in their internal economy in the hope that good health will follow. The worst about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

"A merry laugh doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon a thousand years before Christ. And today if we laughed more we would need medicine less. Aye, if we mixed laughter, love and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.

To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.