1. The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.

- Kurdish Proverb

2. Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine and good water.

- Flying Hawk

3. The wish for healing has always been half of health.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4. Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, it’s about how these five elements interact.

- Tom Rath

5. Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

- Thomas Dekker

6. He who can believe himself well, will be well.

- Ovid

7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

- English Proverb

8. It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

- Joyce Meyer

9. The chief condition on which life, health, and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

- Colin Powell

10. Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

- Yoko Ono

11. Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.

- Thich Naht Hanh

12. Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

- Sydney J. Harris

13. Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

- Julia Child

14. Those who think they have no time for healthy eating… will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

- Edward Stanley

15. A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.

- Naval Ravikannt

16. Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

- Jerry Cantrell

17. The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.

- Wayne Fields

18. Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.

- William Shakespeare

19. Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

- Michael Pollan

20. Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

- Bobby Fischer

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

- Tony Robbins

22. To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

- Buddha

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

- Buddha

24. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

- John Muir

25. Health is more about wellness rather than sickness.

- Matt Purcell

26. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

27. To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

- Stefan Sagmeister

28. I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

- Henry Ward Beecher

29. Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

- Rose Kennedy

30. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

- Doug Larson

31. If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I’ve treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I’ve found that to be a tremendous help.

- Judy Collins

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

33. Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.

- Jack Lalanne

34. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.

- Robert Hutchison

35. So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

- A.J. Reb Materi

36. In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.

- Alison Levy

37. Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

38. As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

- Frederic Chopin

39. I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

- Joyce Meyer

40. If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.

- Deepak Chopra

41. Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

- Julia Child

42. When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.

- Chinese Proverb

43. Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it’s essential to your survival and your well-being.

- Renee Peterson Trudeau

44. Wellness is a connection of paths: knowledge and action.

- Joshua Holtz

45. Health is a relationship between you and your body.

- Unknown

46. We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

- Kurt Vonnegut

47. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

- Hippocrates

48. If you want to enjoy health, start this very moment to cleanse your consciousness of all wrong thinking and rid it of every thought except the thought of love.

- James B. Schafer

49. Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

50. Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

- George William Curtis

51. People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

- James J. Walsh

52. Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

- Robert Redford

53. Don’t eat anything incapable of rotting.

- Michael Pollan

54. Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy.

- Bella Bleue

55. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

- Winston Churchill

56. Every symptom has a story to tell about your life. A fascinating story, that can reveal the complex links between your body, mind, emotions and spirit.

- Kristina Turner

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

- Julius Erving

58. We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

- Ben Carson

59. A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

- Irish Proverb

60. To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.

- John Williams

61. People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

- Laurence Sterne

62. Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.

- Ann Wigmore

63. 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

64. A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

- John Locke

65. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

- Philip Stanhope

66. A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.

- Naval Ravikant

67. If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

68. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

69. It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

- Marcus Tulius Cicero

70. Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.

- Naval Ravikant

71. The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

- Hazrat Khan

72. View health as an investment, not an expense.

- John Quelch

73. Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

- Charles Schulz

74. Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

- Eleanor Brown

75. Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

- Denis Diderot

76. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

- Mahatma Gandhi

77. A feeble body weakens the mind.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

78. The really important thing is not to live, but to live well… and to live well means the same thing as to live honorably or rightly.

- Socrates

79. Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.

- Astrid Alauda

80. Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.

- Kevin Trudeau

81. The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

- Quentin Regestein

82. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

- Benjamin Franklin

83. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain

84. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

- Mark Twain

85. If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

- Logan Clendinning

86. Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

- Ralph Marston

87. Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

- John F. Kennedy

88. Wellness is the compete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.

- Greg Anderson

89. A fit, healthy body – that is the best fashion statement.

- Jess C. Scott

90. True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

- William Penn

91. A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

- Wayne Dyer

92. Nothing is more fatal to health, than an over care of it.

- Benjamin Franklin

93. 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 we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

- Izaak Walton

94. The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

- Plato

95. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

- Rev. Billy Graham

96. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.

- Jackie Gleason

97. There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

- Henry David Thoreau

98. Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well; and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.

- James H. West

99. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

- Naval Ravikannt

100. In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

101. Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

- John F. Kennedy

102. Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

- William Hazlitt

103. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.

- Plato

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

105. Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

- Deepak Chopra

106. The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.

- Thomas Edison

107. Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

- Marquis de Sade

108. I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.

- Voltaire

109. A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

- Francis Bacon

110. If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Robert Orben

112. What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

- Caroline Myss

113. Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

114. If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

- Hippocrates

115. When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

- Herophilus

116. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

- Thomas Jefferson

117. Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you’re not healthy. You can’t appreciate it.

- Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad

118. Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz – something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

- Chungliang Al Huang

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

- Spanish Proverb

120. The groundwork for all happiness is good health.

- Leigh Hunt

121. Happiness is the highest form of health.

- Dalai Lama

122. I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

- Steven Wright

123. Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.

- Martin Fischer

124. You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

- Dr. Seuss

125. Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

- John Armstrong

126. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

- Arabian Proverb

127. No time for your health today, no health for your time tomorrow.

- Thibaut

128. The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

- Richard Davidson

129. It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

- Phil McGraw

130. If you don’t take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you.

- Carrie Latet

131. When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

132. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

133. Switch your mentality from ‘I’m broken and helpless’ to ‘I’m growing and healing’ and watch how your life changes, for the better.

- Reyna Biddy, A Psalm for Us

134. Take care of your mind, your body will thank you. Take care of your body, your mind will thank you.

- Debbie Hampton

135. The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

- Mark Hyman

136. Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being ‘silly.’ But the word ‘silly’ comes from the old English word ‘selig’ and its literal definition is ‘to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous’.

- Zig Ziglar

137. In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Joseph Addison

139. Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.

- Publilius Syrus

140. Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

- Joseph Addison

141. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

- Hippocrates

142. A singer’s body is his instrument, and I believe in keeping my instrument finely tuned.

- Wayne Newton, National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation

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

- Jim Rohn

144. Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

- Danish Proverb

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

- Harry J. Johnson

146. Happily we are learning that the mind has to do with the misdeeds of the body, and that there are no more valuable therapeutic agents than cheerfulness, happiness, and hope.

- Olive Thorne Miller

147. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of year.

- Franklin P. Adams

148. I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

- Samuel Butler

149. After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile.

- T. Cogan

150. The body is a sacred garment.

- Martha Graham

151. The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

- Mark Hyman

152. The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

- Robert C. Peale

153. The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

154. 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.

- Tony Robbins

155. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

- Abraham Maslow

156. A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.

- Joan Welsh

157. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

158. Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

- Terri Guillemets

159. Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

160. Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

- Thomas Jefferson

161. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

- Carl Jung

162. Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

- Fred Rogers

163. It’s important to point out that mental health is more about wellness rather than sickness.

- Matt Purcell

164. The best doctors gives the least medicine.

- Benjamin Franklin

165. Self-care is how you take your power back.

- Lalah Delia

166. Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

- Johnny Carson

167. You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it.

- Isla Fisher

168. The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

- Voltaire

169. No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.

- Deepak Chopra

170. Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind.

- Mary Baker Eddy

171. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

- Henry David Thoreau

172. With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

- Oprah Winfrey

173. You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

- Geneen Roth

174. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

- Albert Schweitzer

175. Mental health isn’t all of me, but it’s a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being.

- Adwoa Aboah

176. The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

- Jean Baptiste Moliere

177. There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.

- Josh Billings

178. Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

179. I stand in awe of my body.

- Henry David Thoreau

180. The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

- Caroline Myss

181. Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

- John F. Kennedy

182. If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.

- P. J. O’Rourke

183. Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.

- Publilius Syrus

184. Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

185. Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

- W. H. Auden