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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 12: Taking Care of Your Body

The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.  

- Greg Anderson  

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.  

- Richard Baker  

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.  

- Rona Barrett  

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.  

- Charles Baudelaire  

From labor health, from health contentment springs.  

- Melody Beattie  

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100]  

- Eubie Blake  

Energy is eternal delight.  

- William Blake  

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.  

- Francis Bowen  

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.  

- Buddha  

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.  

- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton  

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!  

- Thomas Carlyle  

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.  

- Anton Chekhov  

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.  

- James Freeman Clarke  

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.  

- Charles Caleb Colton  

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.  

- Ellen Degeneres  

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.  

- Benjamin Disraeli  

You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.  

- Wayne Dyer  

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.  

- Julius Erving  

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.  

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher  

By the time we've made it, we've had it.  

- Malcolm S Forbes  

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.  

- Nathaniel Hawthorne  

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.  

- Heave  

As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.  

- Gay Hendricks  

The groundwork of all happiness is health.  

- Leigh Hunt  

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.  

- Henrik Ibsen  

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.  

- Thomas Jefferson  

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.  

- Harry J Johnson  

Health is my expected heaven.  

- John Keats  

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.  

- Jay Kordich  

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.  

- Dio Lewis  

To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.  

- William Londen  

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.  

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.  

- Arthur Murphy  

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.  

- Robert Orben  

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.  

- Peace Pilgrim  

Health consists with temperance alone.  

- Alexander Pope  

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.  

- Italian Proverb  

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.  

- Spanish Proverb  

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.  

- Bob Richards  

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.  

- Anthony Robbins  

The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life, nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.  

- Anthony Robbins  

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.  

- Tom Robbins  

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.  

- Jim Rohn  

A feeble body weakens the mind.  

- Jean Jacques Rousseau  

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.  

- Schola Salern  

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.  

- Barbara Sher  

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.  

- Sir Philip Sidney  

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.  

- Herbert Spencer  

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.  

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton  

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.  

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus  

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.  

- Henry David Thoreau  

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.  

- Brian Tracy  

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.  

- Source Unknown  

To feel ''fit as a fiddle'' you must tone down your middle.  

- Source Unknown  

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.  

- Source Unknown  

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.  

- Denis Waitley  

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.  

- Denis Waitley  

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.  

- Izaak Walton  

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.  

- Joan Welsh  

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.  

- Ludwig Wittgenstein  

Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.  

- Zoroaster  

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