Nurture Your Own

“He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.”

Italian proverb

“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.”

by William Penn (1644-1718), British religious leader.

“Health is my expected heaven.”

by John Keats (1795-1821), British poet.

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”

by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Third president of the United States.

“Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!”

by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), British historian and essayist.

“Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.”

by Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), British clergyman, sportsman and author.

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

by Buddha (563 BC-483 BC) , Founder of Buddhism.

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

~ by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

“There’s lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven’t got time to enjoy it.”

by Josh Billings (1815-1885), American humorist and lecturer.

“Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”

by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790),  American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

“Energy is eternal delight.”

by William Blake (1757-1827), British poet and painter.

“Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness — an open and noble temper.”

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882),  U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.