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Benefits of Exercise

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When I’m low on energy, exercise recharges me. It also relieves stress. A vigorous workout restores perspective and helps me release concerns that had seemed deserving of worry.
— Tom Gegax

People who exercise regularly have fewer illnesses.
— Bernie Siegel

Refresh that part of you that is most wearied. If your life is sedentary, exercise the body; if stirring and active, recreate your mind.
— Thomas Fuller

Those who think they don’t have time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
— Edward Stanley

When our minds race so rapidly that we don’t know which way is up, it often helps to get physical. It may seem ironic, but it works. As you focus your energy on a physical task, the traffic in your mind will begin to thin out.
— Dr. Suzanne Zoglio

Illness

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Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
— Norman Cousins

Franklin’s illness proved a blessing in disguise, for it gave him strength and courage he had not had before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, on her husband’s inability to walk as a result of polio

If I had my life to live over, I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day.
— Ema Bombeck

Illness knocks a lot of nonsense out of us; it induces humility, cuts us down to size. Only when the gate grows narrow do some people discover their soul, their God, their life work.
— Louis Bisch

Show me a patient who is able to laugh and play, who enjoys living, and I’ll show you someone who is going to live longer. Laughter makes the unbearable bearable and a patient with a well developed sense of humor has a better chance of recovery than a stolid individual who seldom laughs.
— Dr. Bernie Siegel

Benefits of Exercise

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Exercise promotes the psychological benefits of looking and feeling healthy, and it reduces stress and stress-induced eating.
— Dr. Richard Couey

Exercise and physical fitness can act as buffers against stress.
— Michael Sacks

I strongly believe in the Bible saying that one’s body is a temple. I think it’s up to us to make our body last as long as possible, and the only way to do that is to exercise regularly.
— Gary Player

Without a proper amount of daily exercise no one can remain healthy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

To be a good mayor or a good politician, you need to feel good about yourself. You have to believe in yourself and running certainly helps that. Because I feel good, I think I have energy to spread around, to take care of my responsibility as mayor.
— Jim Scheibel

Good Health

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Healthy habits increase our energy and improve both our performance and our satisfaction on the job. It may take more time, but in the end, preserving your own health makes possible everything else you want to do.
— David Niven

Good thoughts are half of good health.
— Yugoslav proverb

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
— Izaak Walton

The greatest mistake a man can make is to sacrifice health for any other advantage.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

Refuse to talk about your health. The more you talk about an ailment, even the common cold, the worse it seems to get. Talking about bad health is like putting fertilizer on weeds. Besides, talking about your health is a bad habit. It bores people. It makes one appear self-centered and old maidish.
— David Schwartz

Benefits of Exercise

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Even the best diet combined with the most potent vitamins will never tune up your muscles the way good exercise will.
— Covert Bailey

Exercise is excellent therapy for depression.
— George Allen

Exercise can be a tremendous mental and physical stimulant, clearing away sluggishness. It also teaches you persistence and concentration.
— Napoleon Hill

The exercise of swimming is one of the most healthy and agreeable in the world.
— Benjamin Franklin

Aging is a deterioration of connective tissue. The stiffness, shrinkage and drying up of aging occur directly in that great web of fiber that ties us together. What exercise does is resist this stiffening. Age is what makes it tight; movement is what keeps it loose.
— John Jerome

Food

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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
— Benjamin Franklin

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, but dine like a pauper.
— Gary Player

When you eat to excess, illnesses enter your body. Behave in such a way that when you finish your dinner, you want to eat a little more.
— Leo Tolstoy

Never eat while angry, frightened or worried. Your body is simply not in a position to make use of the food when it is on a defensive footing.
— Napoleon Hill

Laughter is brightest where food is best.
— Irish proverb

Benefits of Exercise

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If there is a fountain of youth, it has to be exercise.
— Gary Player

I’m convinced that, as I get older, I shall increase, rather than decrease, the amount of exercising I do.
— Jack Nicklaus

Exercising and eating right are two of the most important things you can do to enhance your well-being and keep up with the rush of life’s oncoming challenges.
— Mary Lou Retton

It is remarkable how one’s wits are sharpened by physical exercise.
— Pliny the Younger

Exercise is the most overlooked secret of happiness. Exercise produces neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine that enable us to be happy. Exercise also makes us proud of our bodies, proud of how we look and feel, proud of what we can do.
— Dr. Frank Pittman III