Words of Wisdom:

"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
Addison

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
Henri-Frederic Amiel, (1828-1881)

"The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."
Bacon

"The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order."
Beecher

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
The Buddha

"A quiet mind cureth all."
Robert Burton

"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat... Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy."
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Sir Walter Scott

"He who sings frightens away his ills."
Cervantes

"These are not issues that we have guidebooks about. They are issues that we have to summon up what we believe is morally and ethically and spiritually correct and do the best that we can with God's guidance. How do we create a system that gets rid of micro-management and the regulation and bureaucracy, and substitutes instead human caring, concern and love-- that is our real challenge in re-defining our health care system."
Hillary Rodham Clinton

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

"Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind."
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), Science and Health

"If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life."
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"Life is not merely being alive, but being well."
Martial (c. AD 66), Epigrams

"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health."
M. Scott Peck

"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor."
Sir William Temple

"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health."
James Thomson (1700-1748)

"Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. "
Thoreau (1817-1862), Journal

"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease."
Wilde, The Decay of Lying

"Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness."
Zoroaster

"Health and good estate of body are above all gold."
Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus XXX, 15

"Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body."
LaRochefoucauld

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
Einstein

"Science may have found a cure for most human evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of all-- the apathy of human beings."
Helen Keller

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ...Stupidity is replicating itself at an astonishing rate. It breeds easily and is self financing."
Frank Zappa

"Two rules for stress management: "Rule one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule two: It's all small stuff"
Robert Elliot

"Stress is the heart's jailer."
Kall

"It is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed."
Seneca, De Clementia

"Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out."
John Wolcot (1738-1819)

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
Ben Franklin

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
James Abram Garfield

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. "
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Death The Final Stage of Growth

"When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found. "
Sufi Proverb

"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken. "
Proverbs, XV.13

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. "
Sydney J. Harris

"When the head aches, the whole body is out of tune."
Cervantes

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. "
Charlie Chaplain

"The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden Suffering;
And then to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die. "
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Poems

"We no other pains endure, Than those that we ourselves procure."
Spencer Dryden

"Every protective self deception is a crevice in our psyche with a little demon lurking in it, ready to become an episode of unexplained anxiety when life threatens. The self deceptions which are designed to protect us from pain actually end up delivering more pain. We fortify our deceptions to protect them from the natural corrections of daily life."
Roger Gould, Transformations

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, has thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest-- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Einstein

"Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts."
Thich Nhat Hanh

"In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly..."
William James, Is Life Worth Living

"Pride is hard to swallow, but it will go down."
Conrad Dobler

"Failure is a reminder to learn, so it doesn't become a habit."
Quincy Jones