Jane Goodall Quotes

We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.

I'm optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it's about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I'm physically active and devout - just not as Buddhistic as she was.

I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.

The hell with the aging process. It happens to everyone - you just keep your mind active, you keep physically active.

Being healthy is not just about building a body: it is a lifestyle that manifests itself in your general outlook. It makes you more positive and optimistic and increases your energy level.

The most important thing is I want to be healthy.

Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.

I think the most important thing in life is your health. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You'll look and feel way better for it.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Around '93, I had to get a couple of jobs. I had a job for a while working at a gym, just so I could work out for free, because I knew if I didn't exercise, I'd go crazy. It's the key to my mental health, actually.

When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It keeps me very balanced.

The most important thing for me to teach my children is about health and fitness. It's about taking care of your body and eating foods that are good for you and getting the right exercise that you need... It's just about living a healthy life for longevity and a healthy heart.