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Quotes and aphorisms on food

Carl William Brown — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:00:32 +0000

Quotes on food

Quotes and aphorisms on food by various and famous authors and writers, ideas and thoughts to a well balanced diet and food philosophy to eat and live better.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead – not sick, not wounded – dead.
Woody Allen

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Jeff Arder

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.
James Beard

Unbought feasts. (Lat., Dapes inemptae.)
Latin Proverb

An anonymous man from the 16th century always used to say: “There are many important things in life, the first is eating, I don’t know the others.”
Carl William Brown

Hunger is a good cook.
Author Unknown

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
Alice May Brock

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
Samuel Butler

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
John Barrymore

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

Aphorisms on food

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don’t think I could eat eight.
Yogi Berra

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid, and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. Bush

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Samuel Butler

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown

What most moved him was a certain meal on beans.
Robert Browning

I just hate health food.
Julia Child

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Shirley Conran

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Barbara Cartland

Aphorisms and quotes on food

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
Cato The Elder

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.
Charles II

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Marcus T. Cicero

Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.
Arthur Winter

Food = joy … guilt … anger … pain … nurturing … friendship … hatred … the way you look and feel…. Food = everything you can imagine.
Susan Powter

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.
Fran Lebowitz

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans.
Fran Lebowitz

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M.F.K. Fisher

Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We’re people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.
Rachel ray

My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you’re with!
Pamela Anderson

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.
William Collier

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly

Salami Italian typical food

To eat is human, to digest divine.
Charles T. Copeland

Square meals often make round people.
Joseph E. Cossman

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
Rodney Dangerfield

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides

Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.
Cliff Fadiman

Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life’s Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d’oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.
Edna Ferber

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
Joseph Epstein

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck

Food … is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
Donald Barthelme

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
Bible, Psalms

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn’t remind you of anything.
Redd Foxx

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Mahatma Gandhi

It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chairs.
W. S. Gilbert

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
Sir Walter Scott

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
Sir Walter Scott

Thoughts on the art of food

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde

We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important … I don’t mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different … self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.
Tom Jaine

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
Lucretius

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.
Mario Batali

You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
Kurt Vonnegut

We need a quarter of the food we eat to live, the rest is used to fatten industrialists, advertisers, doctors and undertakers. (obviously for those dying of hunger the situation changes.)
Carl William Brown

Food – what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it – is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.
Margaret Visser

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Paul Goodman

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
Phillip H. Haberman Jr.

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
Buddy Hackett

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
Hitopadesa

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Doug Horton

Most of us are either too thin to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
Edgar Watson Howe

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
Kin Hubbard

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It’s simply a question of taste.
Nikita S. Khrushchev

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.
Harry Kurnitz

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.
Author Unknown

Quotes on food and wine

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard

The fact is that this generation – yours, my generation … we’re the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it’s belly.
Bono

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Frances Moore Lappe

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
Fran Lebowitz

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz

If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Joe E. Lewis

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Sophia Loren

Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.
Tyrius Maximus

It ain’t what you eat, but the way how you chew it.
Delbert McClinton

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Henry Miller

Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy

We are digging our graves with our teeth.
Thomas Moffett

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
Charles De Montesquieu

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley

You needn’t tell me that a man who doesn’t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
Hebrew Proverb

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.
New England Proverb

Vegetarian food pyramid

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Anthony Robbins

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
Susie Orbach

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you’ll hardly have time to think about food.
Peace Pilgrim

He who eats alone chokes alone.
Arabian Proverb

It’s better that it should make you sick than that you don’t eat it at all.
Catalan Proverb

Don’t dig your grave with your knife and fork.
English Proverb

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
French Proverb

Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
French Proverb

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.
French Proverb

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Turkish Proverb

When one has tasted it [watermelon] he knows what the angels eat.
Mark Twain

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
Saadi

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
George Santayana

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
William Shakespeare

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

Ideas and quotes on food

Seven’s a banquet nine a brawl.
Author Unknown

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem

Lunch is for wimps.
Oliver Stone

Man shall not live by bread alone.
The Holy Bible

Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.
The Holy Bible

Much meat, much disease.
Author Unknown

Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator.
Phyllis Diller

Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
Dogen

A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.
Izaak Walton

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang

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The Laws of Wellness

Carl William Brown — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:26:21 +0000

The laws of wellness

The Laws of Wellness, a review and analysis of a great book by Greg Anderson about the importance of having a holistic approach to life, health or difficulties.

This book addresses wellness as “the only real and lasting means of health care reform.” In his book, Greg Anderson uses, “Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.”
John W. Travis

One of the simplest, most sincere and effective books that deserves to be read and followed by all men of good will.
Carl William Brown

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

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

Greg Anderson is the author of six books, including the international bestseller The Cancer Conqueror, and founder of the American Wellness Project. Through lectures and workshops and as a consultant to businesses and health-care organizations, he is recognized as one of America’s foremost wellness authorities.

The author is known for his work in the field of cancer recovery and wellness programs. He founded the Cancer Recovery Foundation International Group of Charities, which is dedicated to supporting individuals dealing with cancer and promoting holistic approaches to cancer care and overall well-being.

He has written six books, including the international bestseller The Cancer Conqueror, an Incredible Journey to Wellness. Through lectures and workshops and as a consultant to businesses and health-care organizations, he is recognized as one of America’s foremost wellness authorities.

Greg Anderson lived an experience that profoundly transformed him: in 1984 he was diagnosed with lung cancer and the poor prognosis gave him just a month to live. Intimately convinced that everyone is responsible for their own state of health, he undertook a healing journey that allowed him to defeat the disease.

Greg Anderson

Being convinced that well-being is identified in complete harmony between body, mind and spirit and that this state is clearly conditioned by our actions, thought, feeling and belief, Greg Anderson has identified twenty-two rules that emphasize the importance of holistic health and wellness, focusing on various aspects of one’s life, including nutrition, stress management, exercise, and emotional well-being. Greg Anderson’s work has had a positive impact on many individuals facing cancer, as well as those interested in adopting a more comprehensive approach to their health.
Carl William Brown

The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness: Feel, Think, and Live Better Than You Ever Thought Possible by Greg Anderson

Wellness is one of the greatest and most powerful words in the English language. Unfortunately, it is also one of the least understood. But start putting this word into your vocabulary and the concepts it entails into your life. Wellness is one of the most important ideas of our time.

Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being. Wellness is a choice, a decision we make to move toward optimal health and maximum life. Wellness is a process – awareness that there is no end point but health and happiness are always possible in the present moment, here and now.

Wellness is not a “medical fix” but a way of living – a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit; an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.

Medicine deals with one dimension, the body. Old self-help ideas dealt with one dimension, typically the mind. Wellness involves an all-inclusive paradigm shift. Its practice encompasses six major life areas – the physical, emotional, social, intellectual, vocational, and spiritual spheres. Wellness is not a piecemeal approach; it involves the total you!

Traditional medicine finds a problem – a symptom – treats it. The goal is to neutralize symptoms, to return to a point of no discernible illness. This is the disease model of medicine. Preventive medicine, trumpeted by an increasing number in the medical community, is also based on the disease model. The goal is the same: no discernible illness.

Wellness strives for a new standard. No matter what our state of health, wellness calls for continuing improvement and self-renewal in all areas of life. Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being – in body, mind and spirit.

Holistic approach

The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness distills more than a decade of experience in the field of health enhancement and life enrichment into a set of basic laws that govern success and failure in the pursuit of total wellness. This describes the fundamental rules of the wellness pursuit.

Be challenged. Learn. Then do. There’s no substitute for the commitment to implement. I hope my own journey and those of literally tens of thousands of patients. I have learned from and shared with will help you attain greater wellness. You may find some of the laws challenging, but keep in mind that they are all true guideposts for living. I wish you well on your own journey to wellness.

The Law of Esprit: The joy you feel is life!
The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift and our job is to untie the ribbons.
That’s the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

The Law of Personal Accountability: If it’s going to be, it’s up to me. – Robert H. Schuller
It shouts that we have the ability to choose both our behaviors and our responses! It’s more than stress management; it’s personal choice.

The Law of Unity: The part can never be well unless the whole is well. – Plato
Body, mind, and spirit work together.

The Law of Physical Activity: Use it or lose it.
The critical importance of exercise has been recognized for centuries. Modern studies confirming its positive influence are legion. The message is repeated in newspapers and magazines and on television. From grade schools to nursing homes, throughout our lives, the message is clear: we need to exercise! There’s little room to debate the powerful Law of Physical Activity.

The Law of Nutritional Frugality: A little with quiet is the only diet. – Scottish proverb
The core message of the Law of Nutritional Frugality is simple: eat a variety of unprocessed foods, in moderate amounts, during at least three meals, including breakfast, combined with a smart afternoon snack, while drinking eight glasses of pure water and taking a broad-spectrum vitamin-and-mineral supplement each day.

The Law of Minimal Medical Invasiveness: The art of medicine is generally a question of time. – Ovid
Honor and esteem the doctor who says, “We want to treat you right but do only what is absolutely necessary, and with minimum side effects. We’re going to help your body heal!” Here is a person who understands the Law of Minimal Medical Invasiveness.

Health and wellness

The Law of Stress-Hardiness: It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do about it. – W. Mitchell “survivor”
The law states that stress is to be not only expected but preferred. The law’s corollary states that we can and should welcome stress and that we can and should develop a positive, workable approach to stress management.

The Law of Emotional Choice: Learning to be aware of feelings… is an essential lifetime skill. – Joan Borysenko (author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind)
There’s a hierarchy in our lives that governs our sense of satisfaction. The Law of Emotional Choice is near the top of the heap… The best way to confront fears and anxieties is to invoke the Law of Emotional Choice. Face the fear. Do something about it. Push through it. Go for it! Consistently exercising the Law of Emotional Choice builds an inner strength that is unshakable. This is self-esteem of the best and highest order.

The Law of Developmental Motivation: Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life! For many, this often means a longer life. The type of motivation that drives our lives is an important part of experiencing total wellness. A deep sense of fulfillment comes only from a serious commitment to a life filled with purpose, with striving for higher ideals. Therein lies true happiness.

The Law of Human Dignity: God created man in His own image. – Genesis
This law won’t allow for such categorizing and judging. Respect is the key… The law of human dignity carries with it a mandate: to stop our pettiness and quit putting each other in little boxes that diminish the dignity and potential of all. In short, when you give me respect and I give you respect, we will both be better for it.

The Law of Win/Win: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. – The Golden Rule
We must stay longer in the communication process. We must express ourselves with greater courage. At the same time, we must listen more carefully and in greater depth. Win/win means we strive for understanding first. We seek to be understood second.

The Law of Present-Moment Living: Be here now. – Ram Dass
It is the antithesis of procrastination. We can put off unpleasant activities, but in doing so we also put off the enjoyable ones. We ration our pleasure and contentment as if the supply were limited.

The Law of Mindfulness: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. – John Milton
Choose where you focus, and focus on thoughts that nurture. Concentrate on what you have, not what you’ve lost. You’ll see the results in your health and your life.

The Law of Creativity: Imagination is the eye of the soul. – Joseph Joubert
It calls not for my way or your way, but for the best way. This is the picture, the idea we must find and hold on to without wavering. Then we create wellness in body, mind, and spirit, wellness of the highest level.

Meditation and wellness

The Law of Lifetime Growth: We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. – Goethe
It demands both a cultural change and a megashift in our own thinking about all life can be. This law of wellness represents a great hope for people of all ages, all states of wellness, all cultures.

The Law of Life Mission: He dies every day who lives a lingering life. – Pierrard Poullet
Conventional wisdom says, “If you have your health, you have everything.” Don’t believe it. It’s not so much that this old adage is wrong as that there is a higher truth. The Law of Life Mission holds, “If you have a purpose, you have everything.”

The Law of Purpose Through Service: Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
Mission comes alive only through service – the idea of caring for others. There’s magic in this law. When we serve with depth and sincerity, we get a glimpse of the essential quality of who we really can become… We must think through, personalize, and understand both intellectually and emotionally this idea of finding purpose through helping others.

The Law of Stewardship: If you want happiness for a lifetime, help the next generation. – Chinese proverb
The quest for personal wellness is an illusion without a commitment to the wellness of all and the entire universe. We do not stand alone. The people of this planet are interdependent in all things… The Law of Stewardship requires us to pass the planet on to future generations in a better condition than we found it in… In the final analysis, the Law of Stewardship requires us to manage our lives in such a way that we hold in high regard the welfare of others and leave things better than when we found them. We are all stewards. Let’s rise to meet our responsibilities.

The Law of Forgiveness: Forgiveness restores our hearts to the innocence that we knew – an innocence that allowed us the freedom to love. – Robin Casarjian (author of Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart)
Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the English language. Mark this as one of the great truths of the collective wisdom passed down through the centuries: life can be lived most abundantly as an adventure in forgiveness.

The Law of Gratitude: Affirm the good things.
The wellness path requires us to embrace a proactive expression of sincere gratitude. Try it for a week, a day, an hour. Observe the results. You will be amazed at the changes in yourself, your health, your relationships, your career – your entire life.

The Law of Personal Peace: Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace. – The Dalai Lama
The way of peace? Through prayerful meditation, a forgotten and misunderstood discipline. Prayerful meditation is an excellent way to develop increased awareness in all areas of life. But it is essential in attaining and sustaining personal peace.

The Law of Unconditional Loving: … and the greatest of these is love. – Saint Paul
All success, all well-being, all self-improvement has its basis in an unfathomable spirit that sustains us even when we may be least aware of it. That spirit is love.

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Health and Fitness

Carl William Brown — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:44:24 +0000

Health and fitness

Health and Fitness News, quotes, and press feed with some useful tips and advices to keep fit, in a good mood and in a healthy body to tackle with modern life.

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

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
Jim Otto

For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
Rakul Preet Singh

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

Health and fitness news and quotes

The most widely accepted definition of health is that of the World Health Organization Constitution. It states: “health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organization, 1946). In more recent years, this statement has been amplified to include the ability to lead a “socially and economically productive life”.

In its most general meaning, physical fitness is a general state of good physical health. A physically handicapped person’s body may be physically fit (healthy), though its ability is likely to be less than optimum. Physical fitness is usually a result of regular physical activity and proper nutrition. Physical fitness can be divided into different areas, including: Flexibility, Cardio-respiratory endurance, and Strength.
The government Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans say to aim for at least 2 hours and 30 minutes of aerobic activity that requires moderate effort each week.

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. It is a Latin phrase, usually translated as “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. The phrase is widely used in sporting and educational contexts to express the theory that physical exercise is an important or essential part of mental and psychological well-being.

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli. Monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.
Roman poet Juvenal (10.356-64)

You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body. Ask for a stout heart that has no fear of death, and deems length of days the least of Nature’s gifts that can endure any kind of toil, that knows neither wrath nor desire and thinks the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and banquets and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. What I commend to you, you can give to yourself; For assuredly, the only road to a life of peace is virtue. 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.
Hippocrates

The only weights I lift are my dogs.
Olivia Newton-John

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.
Jill Johnson

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
Elaine MacDonald

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
Grete Waitz

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi

Yoga teaching

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
Marv Levy

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.
Tipper Gore

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
Joseph Pilates

If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.
Anonymous

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.
Herophiles

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https://darebee.com/ Darebee is a popular, free, and ad-free fitness resource providing workout plans, visual exercise posters, and 30-day challenges for all levels. (Darebee on Youtube). Founded in 2012 by Neila Rey, it focuses on no-equipment, bodyweight exercises designed to build strength and endurance. The platform is community-supported, non-commercial, and requires no signups. 2300+ home workouts, FREE workouts, exercise programs, monthly challenges and fitness guides. Key Features of Darebee: No Equipment Needed: Most workouts are bodyweight-based, making them accessible at home. Visual Guides: Workouts are presented as easy-to-follow, downloadable posters. Variety: Offers hundreds of routines, including cardio, strength, combat, and yoga. Levels System: Workouts have levels of difficulty (Level I, II, III), allowing beginners to advance. Structure: Includes 30-day challenges and structured training plans. Darebee is designed to make fitness accessible to everyone, promoting a “user-friendly” and versatile approach to working out without requiring a gym membership or paid apps.

https://greatist.com/ Greatist Health and Fitness News, Tips, Recipes, and Exercises. Greatist is dedicated to making wellness information accessible and actionable for people of all lifestyles and budgets, with the goal of helping individuals make informed decisions about their health. Our content is created, fact-checked, and reviewed by qualified writers, editors, clinicians, and other contributors. At Greatist, we get that, and we’re here with one goal: to help you discover what works for you and how to apply it. We’re here to support and inspire, so you can take actions every day to live your best life. Whether we’re talking breakfast, breathing, or brain health, you can trust that all Greatist content is evidence-based, science-backed, and expert-approved. We hope you tap into all of Greatist’s resources – more than 7,000 articles and 3,000 recipes, along with workout videos, wellness challenges and workshops, daily newsletters, product reviews, and a growing social community of more than 2 million.

https://musclewiki.com/ MuscleWiki is a popular, free fitness tool and app that simplifies workout planning by allowing users to click on an interactive body map to find exercises for specific muscles. It features a large library of over 1,700 exercises with short, simple videos and instructions for both gym and home workouts. Key features of MuscleWiki include: Interactive Body Map: Pinpoint a muscle group to discover targeted exercises. Exercise Library: Extensive repository of exercises (over 1,700) with video demonstrations for proper form. Workout Generator & Tracking: Features a tool to generate workouts and a tracker for monitoring progress (available on iOS and Android). Versatility: Offers options for bodyweight training, dumbbell workouts, and gym equipment. No-Frills Approach: Focuses on quick, easy-to-understand demonstrations, often avoiding long explanations. MuscleWiki is often praised for being beginner-friendly, providing clear visuals, and having an ad-free experience, according to user reviews on Google Play.

https://www.virtualfitnesstv.com/ Virtual Fitness TV turns every workout into a scenic escape, bringing stunning landscapes and virtual journeys from around the world straight to your screen. Virtual Fitness TV offers over 3,500 immersive, high-quality videos – including virtual walks, cycles, and rows through scenic locations like Paris and Zion National Park—designed to make indoor workouts, such as using a treadmill or exercise bike, more engaging. The platform provides 4K/HD content (from the Ambient Collection) for both home users and commercial, or gym, settings to enhance fitness journeys. Key Features & Offerings: Virtual Journeys: Jog through scenic locations, cycle through cities like Amsterdam, or take guided boat tours in Venice. Variety of Content: Includes scenic walks, nature trails, underwater worlds, and relaxing, calm scenes. Compatible Devices: The app is available for Android devices, making it accessible for streaming directly to TVs. Goal-Oriented: Enables users to maintain a routine by walking, running, or training at home, including specific challenges like the “2000 Steps Challenge”. Subscription Options: Subscriptions range from personal use to commercial rights for commercial displays and gyms.

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Quotes, thoughts and ideas by Bertrand Russell

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Quotes, thoughts and ideas by Bertrand Russell

Quotes, thoughts and ideas by Bertrand Russell. A rich collection of aphorisms and reflections by the great philosopher, mathematician, logician, teacher, writer, popularizer, pacifist, atheist, and nonconformist.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand Russell

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell quotes and aphorisms

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
Bertrand Russell

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell ideas and thoughts

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell quotes ideas and thoughts

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand Russell

Sin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand Russell

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Bertrand Russell

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell