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Wellness Quotes

 

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – Marilyn vos Savant

“He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch proverb

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” – Josh Billings 

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Harold Thurman Whitman

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridges to cross and which to burn.” – unknown

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“People will forget what you said; people will forget what you did; but people
will NEVER forget how you made them feel.”
Bonnie Jean Wasmund

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton

“Television is a chewing gum for the eyes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

 “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.” – Joe Lewis

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” – Groucho Marx

“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” – Baltasar Morales

 “The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.” – John Jensen

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” – Abraham Lincoln

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

“Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.” – Susan Rabin

"I’d give all wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, to be once more a little child for one bright summer day." – Lewis Carroll

"To be interested in the changing seasons is…a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." – George Santayana

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders." – Abigail Van Buren

"In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular." – Kathleen Norris

"There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that." – Rumi

"A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk." – unknown

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan W. Watts

"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." – Lily Tomlin

"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love." - Mother Theresa 

"Wellness is a process – a developing awareness that there is no end point, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment, here and now." – J.W. Travis and R.S. Ryan, The Wellness Workbook

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!" – Unknown

"Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps you in touch with your children." – J. Paul Getty

"Don’t you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘Brightness’, but it doesn’t work." – Gallagher

 "Become the change you want to see in the world." – Gandhi

 "The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but it’s just as hard to cut." – Little Richard

"Your children need your presence more than your presents." – Jesse Jackson

"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels." – unknown

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." – Katharine Hepburn

"Exercise is like a savings account. The more you put in, the more you're going to get out of it." – Ron Ekovich

"Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through it ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." – Josh Billings

"Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward." – Victor Kiam

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do." – Mark Twain

 "You are only young once. But you can stay immature indefinitely." – Ogden Nash

 "Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly." – Julie Andrews

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old." - James A. Garfield

"The way to the heart is through the ears." - Katie Hurley

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." – Bill Cosby

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
- Jules Renard

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." - Bill Vaughn

"I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol." – unknown

"You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." – Michael Pritchard

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." – unknown

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." - Doug Larson

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it." – Mae West

"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." – Ann Landers

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

"Nature, time, and patience are three great physicians." - H.G. Bohn

"If it weren't for the fact that the TV and refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all." - Joey Adams

"Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank." - Ben Irwin

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