Quotes about Wellness

It is said that wars are won in the general's tent. Sharpening the saw in the first three dimensions—the physical, the spiritual, and the mental—is a practice I call the "Daily Private Victory." And I commend to you the simple practice of spending one hour a day every day doing it—one hour a day for the rest of your life.

Dr. Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature: our body, our mind, and our spirit. But his deepest conviction is that most—not all—diseases originate in the spirit. That is, in a sense of meaninglessness, a sense of hollowness, a sense of purposelessness. No mission. No vision. No future.

Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I'll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.