WELLNESS QUOTES FROM HIPPOCRATES TO POLLAN THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR HEALTH!

Wellness Quotes DO make a difference!

I have found that having some Words of Wisdom, in this case Words of Wellness, to fall back on in life helps while struggling to stay on track, in any endeavor. Here is a short list of my favorite wellness "words of wisdom" that I have accumulated to help get you on the right track and keep you there.

WELLNESS QUOTES BY TOPIC

(IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

BALANCE

HIPPOCRATES

The Father of Medicine (460-357BC)

This is my favorite wellness quote of all-time!

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."

BILL TOOMEY

"As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise."

BIOCHEMICAL INDIVIDUALITY

LUCRETIUS

This is my second favorite wellness quote of all-time!

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others."

HIPPOCRATES

"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."

ENVIRONMENT

MICHAEL POLLAN

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."

FOOD POLITICS

MICHAEL POLLAN

"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."

FOOD QUALITY

HIPPOCRATES

And, this is my third favorite wellness quote of all time.

"Let food be your medicine and medicine your food."

MICHAEL POLLAN

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind." 


"High-quality food is better for your health."

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

"Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat."

HEALTHCARE

TOM HARKIN

"Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system."

HUMAN RESILIENCE

HIPPOCRATES

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

LIFESTYLE

DIANA SCHWARZBEIN, M.D.

"Degenerative diseases of aging are not genetic but acquired. Because the systems of the human body are interconnected, and because one imbalance creates another imbalance, poor eating and lifestyle habits, not genetics, are the major cause."

MENTAL LEADS PHYSICAL

BOB KNIGHT

"Mental is to physical, as 4 is to 1"

SATCHEL PAIGE

"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."


"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

MOVEMENT

HIPPOCRATES

"Walking is man's best medicine." 


PREPARATION

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." 


PREVENTION

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

TOM HARKIN

"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention." 



JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

HIPPOCRATES

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."

PRIORITIES

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"The first wealth is health."

MICHAEL POLLAN

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

"When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods."

TREATMENT OF ANIMALS

MOHANDAS GANDHI

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

IMMANUEL KANT

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

Gandhi's, Lincoln's, Assisi's and Kant's words didn't fall deaf on this woman's ears:

Natalie at the Heart And Soul Sanctuary

MICHAEL POLLAN

"For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history." 


WELLNESS

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Hopefully, this list of wellness quotes and future additions will help you attain optimal wellness! If you have enjoyed this page of wellness quotes, please let me know and send me any other quotes that you believe might be appropriate to the Food First Wellness site.