Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Beth Pfeffer

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

Studs Terkel

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Sonia Choquette

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

Steve Jobs

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

Paula Patton

I'm an extremist. Either I'm being healthy and organic, or I want a big, juicy In-N-Out burger, I want it all now! It sure makes me happy.

Peter Kreeft

The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.

Philip Pullman

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Pythagoras

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Terence McKenna

The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

Tedy Bruschi

There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live,

Ted Hughes

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Ted Haggard

I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Randall Terry

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best part of health is fine disposition

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

Lewis Thomas

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

Lewis Thomas

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

Leonard Orr

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

Laura Prepon

I know that when you take care of yourself and are happy and healthy, you are better for those around you and your environment.

Laura Prepon

I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.

Larry Dossey

Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

Stephanie Klein

I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

Stephanie Klein

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Suzanne Farrell

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Stephen Levine

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

Stephen Levine

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

Stephen Levine

...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

Stephen Levine

To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

Stephen Levine

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.