“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
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.
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
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
KINDNESS
The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind. —G. Young
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. —Goethe
Kindness is the beginning and end of the law. —Hebrew Proverb
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand. —Anonymous
Do unto others as though you were others. —Anonymous
REST/RELAXATION
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. —Lily Tomlin
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. —Leo Tolstoy
Work, work, work and more work is do-do. Work and relax, work and relax is do-be-do. —Dr. Richard Diamond
Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair. —Daniel W. Josselyn