Teena Marie Quotes

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.

God gave you a mind, a spirit, and a body, and you should take care of all three.

When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

I don't believe in overdoing myself.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go to kickboxing class every morning at 5 A.M. You know, try to do all the things to take care of the outside of your body, but you also should do - and have to do things that take care of the inside of your body.

How we treat our bodies directly correlates to how we treat our souls. It's all interconnected. It has to be.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I do a lot of yoga.

I stick to myself now on tours. I don't go out party, drink, smoke, do drugs. It's a dry bus. No one is allowed to bring drinks on the bus.

As I tell my children, the first thing is always health. Get sleep, don't party, don't do drugs or drink. If your body is right, then you will be right, and if your body is wrong, you will be wrong. Live like a Buddhist monk!

People get caught up in the idea that health is just what you look like and what you eat, but your health is physical, emotional and mental. Who's to say eating that bowl of ice cream after training isn't going to help me psychologically and emotionally?

Remember that everything you do in the gym makes a difference in the way you live your life outside of the gym. The brownie tastes better when there's no guilt for eating it. Your relationships with other people are more satisfying.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.

I take really good care of myself. I work out a lot and I eat very well.