“Imagine taking your seat for a long flight with your favorite book. But the guy sitting next to you starts telling a story. A minute later, you’ve closed the book. You ask to hear more. In an hour, you’ve laughed, sighed, gasped, held back a tear, then said to hell with it and let it fall. You don’t want this flight to ever end. Joseph Sutton is the guy talking, and he’s also your pilot.”
—Joe Quirk, author of The Ultimate Rush and Exult
Words Of Wellness is a collection of 2000 highly enlightening, inspiring and humorous quotations. Grouped into 120 categories, the quotations cover all aspects of health–be it mental, physical, spiritual or emotional health.
Excerpts from Words of Wellness
Effort
I will spit on my hands and take better hold. —John Heywood
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. —William E. Hickson
There is no failure except in no longer trying. —Elbert Hubbard
If we want to keep living with ourselves, we must keep on trying, trying, trying. —Robert J. White, M.D.
Keep trying. It’s only from the valley that the mountain seems high. —Anonymous
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. —Beverly Sils
Little and often make much. —Anonymous
There are no useless efforts. Sisyphus was developing his muscles. —Roger Callois
Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might. —Bible, Ecclesiastes
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: “Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.” I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have—when he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. —Harry S. Truman
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. —Earl of Chesterfield
Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence—doing your best. —Laurence Olivier
As the old man walked the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun. “But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish,” countered the old man. “How can your effort make any difference?” The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to safety in the waves. “It makes a difference to that one,” he said. —Minnesota Literacy Council
Hope
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. —Arabian Proverb
While there is life there is hope. —Cicero
In adversity man is saved by hope. —Menander
In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds. —Nezami
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. —Anne Frank
Hope is the dream of a waking man. —Diogenes
We have no right to have no hope, because if we have no hope, there is no hope. The basic ethics for modern man conscious of what humanity is running into is to firmly stick to the will of doing something about it and therefore the belief that something can be done about it. —Jacques Monod