Health and Fitness Quotes
Diet
"Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food." ~ Hippocrates
"Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well." ~ Karen Sessions
"If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow." ~ Rockefeller Institute of Medicine research
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." ~ English Proverb
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. ~V.L. Allineare
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." ~ La Rochefoucauld
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
Health
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley
"Life is not living, but living in health." ~ Martial
"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools." ~ Spanish Proverb
"The first wealth is health." ~ Emerson
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin
"He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything." ~ Arabian Proverb
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert Ingersoll
"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." ~ Carol Welch
Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
Chinese Proverb
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope
"We never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. "
Billie Holiday
ALBERT SCHWEITZER:
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
ANGELA LANSBURY:
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It's really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
Success
"Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement." ~ Unknown
"Some succeed because they are destined to, most succeed because they are determined to" ~ Unknown
"Failure is success if we learn from it." ~ Malcom S. Forbes
"Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success." ~ Anonymous
"The only real failure in life is the failure to try." ~ Anonymous
"Sometimes, it is not good enough to do your best; you have to do what is required." ~ Winston Churchill
"Success is a journey, not a destination." ~ Ben Sweetland
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." ~ Aristotle
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” Rumi
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills (Chinese proverb)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT:
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Learning
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Rumi
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."
Richard Feynman
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
Motivation
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." ~ Jim Ryun
"People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others." ~ Anonymous
"An open mind is a terrible thing to lose" ~ Unknown
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." ~- Ben Stein
Determination
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." ~ Japanese proverb
"An obstacle is often a stepping stone" ~ Prescott
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." ~ Tommy Lasorda
"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves." ~ Dwight Eisenhower
"Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind." ~ Zig Ziglar
"If we are to follow in the footsteps of someone great we must first move our feet." ~ Unknown
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." ~ Andre Gide
"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible." ~ Frank L. Gaines
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." ~ William Jennings Bryan
Psychology
Happiness/Philosophy
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.
Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
Chinese Proverb
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
Heaviness is the root of lightness.
(Lao Tzu)
Comedy
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died
- Steven Wright
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
- Charlie Chaplin
A Craftsman polishes his work, but a Comedian polishes his errors.
- Tony Follari
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
- Horace Walpole
Depression
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row
Bob Dylan
Dreams
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Bob Dylan
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson
Love
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built."
Rumi
Courage
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey
My father was my first Guru. Krishnamacharya
"Breath is Life."
Krishnamacharya
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. (The yoga sutras of Patanjali)
~ The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~
share this Yoga saying Amy Weintraub
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
~ Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~
share this Yoga saying Baxter Bell
Cleanse your mind and concentrate on the slowness and evenness of your movements.
(Dr Paul Lam)
Art
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
Children
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young. - Bob Dylan
Risk
PABLO PICASSO:
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
MARK TWAIN:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT:
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Habbit
SPANISH PROVERB:
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
Gardening
Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.
Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.
LOU ERICKSON:
Gardening requires lots of water -- most of it in the form of perspiration.
Heroism
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
FELIX ADLER:
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Music
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
Bob Dylan
HENRY DAVID THOREAU:
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest
HUNTER S. THOMPSON:
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
Science
ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
ISAAC ASIMOV:
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...."
IMMANUEL KANT:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
EDWARD ABBEY:
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
BERTRAND RUSSELL:
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
CARL JUNG:
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman