“That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.”
Source: The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it
“If you make a decision that from here onward you will give the majority of your attention to happy thoughts, you will begin a process of purifying your body. Those happy thoughts will supply your body with the greatest health-booster you could possibly give it.
There are endless excuses not to be happy. But if you put happiness off by saying "I'll be happy when..." you'll not only be delaying happiness for the rest of your life, you'll also be diminishing the health of your body. Happiness is your body's miracle elixir, so be happy NOW, no excuses!”
Source: How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
“There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.”
Source: Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
“All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.”
“He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three.”
Source: The Pregnant Widow
“Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body.”
Source: The Art of Neuroscience in Everything
“Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.”
“Energy drinks like Red Bull may give you wings for the moment, but in time it takes away your basic physical and mental wellness and leads to disastrous psychiatric and physiological conditions.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Always walk as if you’re running late, it’s healthier.”
Source: Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
“Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: “Yourself, sir,” replied the other, “by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life.”
Source: The Complete Essays