Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Health is my expected heaven.

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself permission to relax, people will feel more relaxed around you; your environment will become more harmonious. Balance - between work and pleasure, giving and receiving, seriousness and levity - creates a happy healthy life.

There is little disagreement on our planet that the lives of most human beings could be improved immensely. Words pour out of lecturers, articles pour out of magazines, and books pour out of authors, all seeking to help us understand how we can have more peace, security, health, opportunity, happiness, fulfillment, abundance, and love.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

We need the tonic of wildness.

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. And I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Health depends on being in harmony with our souls

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.