Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being

Words of WellnessA collection of 2000 highly enlightening, inspiring and humorous quotations grouped into 120 categories. The quotations cover all aspects of health—be it mental, physical, spiritual or emotional health.

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Excerpts from Words of Wellness


Body

The body never lies. —Martha Graham

Your body knows perfectly well what’s good for it. —Shakti Gawain

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. —Rudolf Virchow

The body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage, the shorter the trip. —Arnold H. Glasow

But for our body one whole realm of God’s glory—all that we receive through the senses—would go unpraised. For the beasts can’t appreciate it and the angels are, I suppose, pure intelligence. —C.S. Lewis

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else’s. —Goodman Ace

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

The body mirrors the soul and the mind, and is much more accessible than either. —Dr. George Sheehan

A man ought to handle his body, like the sail of a ship, and neither lower and reduce it much when no cloud is in sight, nor be slack and careless in managing it when he comes to suspect something is wrong. —Plutarch

The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young and Old

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. —Samuel Ullman

Spring is wonderful. It makes you feel young enough to do all the things you’re old enough to know you can’t. —Franklin P. Jones

When I was young, I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. —Jean Rostand

You’re never too old to become younger. —Mae West

Young. Old. Just words. —George Burns

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. —Washington Irving

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing. —Zöe Atkins

If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old. —Tryon Edwards

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. —George Santayana

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. —Winston Churchill