Health and Wellness Quotes

1. "Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes." - Charles R. Swindoll


2. "It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you." - Zig Ziglar


3. "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because of who you think you are." - Norman Vincent Peale


4. "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz


5. "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Buddha


6. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James


7. "I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself." - Carolyn Warner


8. "Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." - Jim Rohn


9. "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." - Hugh Downs


10. "The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness." - Abraham Maslow


11. "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


12. "When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable." - Greg Anderson


13. "A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work." - Geoffrey Norman


14. "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." - Ebony Mikle


15. "Just be fearless. It might be your only way to save yourself from fear. Fear can consume you and spit you out dead." - Brian Good


16. "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell


17. "When you speak of a negative or hear a negative from someone that you choose not to accept. Just say the words "cancel - clear." - Donna Marie Wright


18. "Your thoughts creates your experience. Your experience creates your reality. Everything you say is a projection and a creation. The words you use have power. You are always placing an order with ever word you speak." - Jodi Cardoza


19. "No one can defeat you. You can only defeat yourself. You can allow your experiences to destory you or redefine you." - Brian Good


20. "The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.


21. "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." - William Ernest Henley, Invictus


22. "Forget about whom you were; accept who you are, and who you can be." - Brian Good


23. "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - G. C. Lichtenberg


24. "Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick. - Henry David Thoreau


25. "God's gift to us is the gift of life and your gift to God is what you do with your life. - Joe Langton


26. "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. - Mohandas Gandhi


27. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde


28. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


29. "I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." - Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine


30. "A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it." - Lindsay Wagner


31. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller


32. "Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are." - Rachel Naomi


33. "The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson


34. "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey


35. "You can't put a Band - Aid on every boo- boo you've made; some just need time to heal." - MOM


36. "I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood." - Susie Bright


37. "I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music." - Billy Joel


38. "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert H. Humphrey


39. "To heal from the inside out is the key." - Wynonna Judd


40. "We are all human, be comfortable with this fact." - Brian Good


41. "Perhaps we are finally on the edge, the cutting edge of survival and we as a people will - must wake up. Be more diligent, more generous and above all more conscious." - Aisha Bauer


42. "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase, The Tragedy of Waste


43. "Do you believe because you understand, or do you understand because you believe?" - unknown author


44. "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill


45. "You will not to be held captive by fear, anxiety or depression." - Brian Good


46. "Challenges, hardships and obstacles are what life is all about, so being ready to deal with life's sudden changes." - Brian Good


47. "Why would you kill yourself when there are an infinite number of possibile alternatives and positive outcomes." - Brian Good


48. "Sometimes you must find a way to live even if you did not get the proper guidance from your parents because you are the one who is responsible for your own life and the decisions you make." - Brian Good


49. "We are chained by the negatives of society and fears of the recession! We have the key. Just unlock your chain." - Brian Good


50. "Take responsibility for the decisions that you have made in the past that have bought you to where you are in life." - Brian Good


51. "How can an awakening do us harm unless you have not awoken." - Brian Good


52. "The sum of your challenges, hardships and obstacles can become your strength." - Brian Good


53. "When you remember the past too much you don't heal and this can lead to depression." - Brian Good


54. "When you try to view the future too much, it can cause anxiety. But when you live in the Now, it makes you right, glad to be living in the moment." - Brian Good


55. "The 4R's - Rethink suicide. - Reduce your debt to society. - Reuse what's left of your mind. - Recycle whatever you use in raw materials." - Brian Good


56. "Learn to live. Learn to be alive. Embrace your existence. Hug someone, smile at a stranger. Watch a sunset, hug the moon and embrace the stars." - unknown author


57. "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson


58. "Time heals all wounds." - unknown author


59. "A good parent everyday should justify their decisions on how their decisions will affect their children." - unknown author


60. "Today, I am in the eye of my hurricane and safety. I will deal with my hurricanes with no blame or excuses." - Brian Good


61. "It is nice to be popular but it is popular to be nice." - Brian Good


62. "If you are comfortable with yourself, others will be comfortable with you." - unknown author


63. "Our compulsions make us who we are!" - Mary, Gulf Breeze, FL


64. "When one door shuts another opens. Be quick to decide at times for the door may close on you!" - unknown author


65. "Without a struggle, there can be no progress." - Frederick Douglass


66. "Please find me and you will find yourself." - unknown author


67. "Do not trouble, trouble or trouble will trouble you." - unknown author


68. "You are what you are and that is who you are!" - Erin, New Orleans, Louisiana


69. "No one is all good nor is one person all bad." - unknown author


70. "What you choose today, you live with tomorrow." - unknown author


71. "God gives us love, someone to love he lends us." - Alfred Tennyson To J.S.


72. "Time stops for no one, and if we allow ourselves to focus on the negative we might miss out on some really amazing things that life has to offer." - Shannon Spaunburg


73. "In order to follow the right path, we must overcome these obstacles. Sometimes these obstacles are really blessings in disguise, only we don't realize that at the time." - Shannon Spaunburg


74. "Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain." - unknown author


75. "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos (Pop Rock Singer)


76. "Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin." - Tori Amos (Pop Rock Singer)


77. "I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything." - Mary J. Blige (Singer Song Writer)


78. "After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." - Sophia Loren


79. "Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen


80. "Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." - Baltasar Gracian


81. "We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us." - Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)


82. "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop


83. "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." - Henry David Thoreau


84. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau


85. "He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate." - Henry David Thoreau


86. "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau


87. "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." - W. Somerset Maugham


88. "It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham


89. "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey


90. "Be the change you wish to see in this world." - Ghandi

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