Wendell Berry Quotes

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

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.

A sound mind in a sound body.

You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can't do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

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

Health depends on being in harmony with our souls

Healthy people live with their world.

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.

When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness.

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

I feel like 2015 is the year of wellness.

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it.

I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.

I start every morning off with a green juice, because I think it's really important to be alkalined, and then I work out. We teach people that you need to find that balance and that what you put into your body is directly affecting your health.