John Ruskin Quotes

I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.

I work out regularly because I don't see the mind and body as that separate.

I've always found when I'm healthy and happy I perform the best, not necessarily when I've done the most training.

I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

For me exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

One of the things that has changed my life - and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality - is meditating. The simple act of making my brain shut off for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night may not seem like much, but what ends up happening, besides creating space in your day, is your awake posture begins to replicate your meditative posture.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

There is no health without mental health.

It's definitely hard, it's hard to get into a Monday, it's much easier to work through a weekend and accomplish a lot, but I don't think that's the healthiest way to live.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.