“Healthy living” to most people means both physical and mental health are in balance or functioning well together in a person. In many instances, physical and mental health are closely linked, so that a change (good or bad) in one directly affects the other. Inspirational healthy living quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Healthy Living Quotes
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
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise – Benjamin Franklin
A healthy outside starts from the inside. – Robert Urich
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
To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. – Buddha
The greatest wealth is Health. – Unknown
Love yourself enough to live a healthy lifestyle. – Jules Robson
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food – Hippocrates
Life is not merely being alive but being well. – Marcus Valerius Martialis
Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy – Author Unknown
To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. – Buddha
Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. – Edward Stanley
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. – Edward Smith-Stanley
If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live? – Unknown
Health is not valued till sickness comes. – Thomas Fuller
Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which one can die. – Unknown
Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering. – Francois Rabelais
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – Jim Rohn
Garbage in garbage out – George Fuechsel
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life. – T. A. Edison
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. – Doug Larson
Health is the greatest gift. – Buddha
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything – Arabian Proverb
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
Health is the crown on the well person’s head that only the ill person can see. – Robin Sharma
If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it – Common sense
Sickness is felt, but health not at all. – Thomas Fuller, M.D.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. – Author Unknown
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. – Mahatma Gandhi
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. – Josh Billings
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. – Thoreau
Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley
Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness. – Edward Stanley
From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. – Catalan Proverb
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. – Emerson
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. – Joseph Addison
You can’t enjoy wealth if you’re not in good health. – Anonymous
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – Jim Rohn
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh; it pushes matter around. Throughout history, tender loving care’ has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. – Larry Dossey
our body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. – Astrid Alauda
The mind and body are not separate. what affects one, affects the other. – Anonymous
Mainstream medicine would be way different if they focused on prevention even half as much as they focused on intervention… – Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. – Chinese Proverb
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. – Elbert Hubbard
Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners. – William Shakespeare
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. – Robert C. Peale
Happiness is the highest form of health. – Dalai Lama
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. – Paul Dudley White
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass – Leslie Grimutter
The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. – – G.K. Chesterton
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. – Thomas Edison
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. – Winston Churchill
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. – Proverb
One should eat to live, not live to eat. – – Moliere
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
There is no diet that will do what eating healthy does. Skip the diet. Just eat healthy. – Anonymous
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. – William Londen
If you don’t take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you. – Carrie Latet
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. – Spanish Proverb
You learn good health and family are it, and nothing else matters. – Mike Adametz
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. – – Benjamin Franklin
Your body deserves the best. – Anonymous
To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower but does not wet its petals. – Buddha
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. – Jay Leno
Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want. – Alessandra Ambrosio
Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food… stay away from these – Michael Pollan
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Health is a relationship between you and your body – Terri Guillemets
If you’re too busy to workout, your priorities need to change. I can’t think of too many things more important than your health. – Rolsey
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. – Chinese Proverb
A fit, healthy body that is the best fashion statement. – Jess C. Scott
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. – Dutch Proverb
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. – Herophilus
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. – Cicero
The First wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food. – John H. Tobe
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. – Plato
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. – Ann Wigmore
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. – Michael Pollan
If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t. – Michael Pollan
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. – Astrid Alauda
If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food. – Erick McAdams
Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. – Michael Pollan
You can’t expect to look like a million bucks if you eat from the dollar menu. – Anonymous
The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. – Henry Ward Beecher
Health requires healthy food. – Roger Williams
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison. – Francis Bacon
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good – but your rich foods block the gods’ answer and tie Jupiter’s hands. – Persius
Health and intellect are the two blessings of life. – Menander
The groundwork of all happiness is health. – James Leigh Hunt
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. – Plato
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry – Robert Hutchison
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time-pills or stairs. – Joan Welsh
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
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. – Irish Proverb
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
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. – George William Curtis
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. – Plato
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
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. – Norman Cousins
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet. – Margaret Mead
Eating crappy food isn’t a reward – it’s a punishment. – Drew Carey
Sorry, there’s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story. – Morgan Spurlock
About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn’t exist 100 years ago. – Larry McCleary
