Katherine Ryan Quotes

I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

We have two tractor-trailer rigs on the Tour. One is a therapy truck, and one is a workout truck. If everything is going well, you're walking in the workout truck, and when things aren't going well, you're walking in the therapy truck.

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

I don't know anyone who couldn't use a little boost in their energy and self-control.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

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

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

The most important thing for me is health - you wake up in the morning, you can breathe, and you can walk.

I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.

I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.