Grace Paley Quotes

I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

People ask me where I get my vitality, and to tell you the truth, I don't have a clue.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

I have a strong constitution.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30.

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

A woman is as young as her knees.

I'm as healthy as an ox.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

Exercise is the fountain of youth, I believe.

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.