Quotes on Wellness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born. If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we're healing.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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

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

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

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

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.