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    Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
    Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
    Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
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    Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being

    By Joseph Sutton

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    Grouped into 120 alphabetized categories (from "Achievement" to "Kindness" to "Young and Old"), this collection of more than 2,000 highly enlightening, inspiring and often humorous quotations covers all aspects of health—be it mental, physical, spiritual or emotional health. Let the great minds of the ages stimulate your well-being with their words of wellness.

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    PublisherJoseph Sutton
    Release dateApr 18, 2011
    ISBN9781458120281
    Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
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    Joseph Sutton

    Joseph Sutton was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hollywood. He played football at the University of Oregon and graduated with a degree in philosophy. He earned a teaching credential and a degree in history at Cal State University Los Angeles and taught high school history and English for many years. Sutton, who has been writing for more than 50 years, has published over two dozen books. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous national magazines and journals. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Joan.

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      Words of Wellness - Joseph Sutton

      Introduction

      Grouped into 120 alphabetized categories, this collection of over 2,000 highly enlightening, inspiring and often funny quotations covers all aspects of health—be it mental, physical, spiritual or emotional health. Let the great minds of the ages stimulate your well-being with their words of wellness.

      Achievement

      Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. —Arnold Bennett

      Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt

      My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. —Helen Hayes

      So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself—this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. —Henrik Ibsen

      To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. —Marquis de Vauvenargues

      One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. —Marie Curie

      We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. —William Hazlitt

      Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. —Pope John XXIII

      Let us then be up and doing

      With a heart for every fate

      Still achieving, still pursuing

      Learn to labor and to wait.

      —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Action

      You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. —Flip Wilson

      All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. —James Russell Lowell

      Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. —Benjamin Disraeli

      To reach the port of heaven we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, not drift or lie at anchor. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

      What the hell—you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid. —Katharine Hepburn

      Get action. Do things; be sane, don't fritter away your time...take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. —Theodore Roosevelt

      The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried. —Bud Wilkinson

      The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. —T.H. Huxley

      Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. —T.H. Huxley

      Dare to be wise; begin! He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. —Horace

      We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. —Frank Tibolt

      The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so. —Horatio Dresser

      The end of man is action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest. —Thomas Carlyle

      Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone. —Thomas Carlyle

      Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. —Samuel Johnson

      We are made for action, and for right action—for thought and for true thought. Let us live while we live; let us be alive and doing; let us act on what we have. —John Henry Cardinal Newman

      An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. —Old Proverb

      Count that day lost whose low descending sun

      Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

      —Anonymous

      Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. —Peter Levi

      Strong reasons make strong actions. —Shakespeare

      A person who believes in something, who acts on what seems really important, always finds the energy to accomplish the task.

      —Dennis T. Jaffee

      —Cynthia D. Scott

      I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. —G.K. Chesterton

      Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers

      We lose much by fearing to attempt. —J.N. Moffitt

      Go ahead with your life, your plans, your preparation, as fully as you can. Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. —Richard L. Evans

      Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement. —Alfred Adler

      Of all sad words of tongue or pen,

      The saddest are these: It might have been.

      —John Greenleaf Whittier

      And if not now, when? —The Talmud

      One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. —Rita Mae Brown

      Action is the proper Fruit of Knowledge. —Thomas Fuller

      To live is not merely to breathe, it is an act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties, of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence. —Jean Jacques Rousseau

      Aging

      Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. —Jack Benny

      Grow old along with me!

      The best is yet to be.

      —Robert Browning

      If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. —Leon Eldred

      As you get older and the light at the end of the tunnel becomes more obvious, you realize that you need good health to carry you the distance. You realize that it would be hell on earth to be sick, imprisoned in an old body that wasn't quite ready to die yet. —Bob Ryan

      Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. —George Burns

      The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. —Doug Larson

      Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. —Andre Maurois

      Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. —Maurice Chavalier

      To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. —Bernard Baruch

      I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest,

      Because the road's last turn will be the best.

      —Henry Van Dyke

      Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

      —Groucho Marx

      Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles

      Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides

      Bore off the price for verse from his compeers,

      When each had numbered more than fourscore years.

      —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      There is no such thing as on the way out. As long as you are still doing something interesting and good, you're in business because you're still breathing. —Louis Armstrong

      Today I have completed 64 Springtimes and I am now in much better health, much stronger, much more active, than I ever was in my youth. It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. One climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, with surprising strides. —George Sand (Amandine Dupin)

      First you forget names, then you forget faces; then you forget to zip your fly, then you forget to unzip your fly. —Branch Rickey

      As long as you are useful, you'll never be old. —Leo Buscaglia

      I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree Old Age: ICR-FI—If You Can't Recall It, Forget It.—Goodman Ace

      Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole. —Mark Twain

      If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in: you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. —I.F. Stone

      There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. —Old Proverb

      Age is not a question of years but of constitution and temperament. —Chauncey Depew

      At fifty a man's real life begins. He has acquired upon which to achieve; received from which to give; learned from which to teach; cleared upon which to build. —E.W. Bok

      Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it is harvest time. —Judah Leib Lazerov

      Tranquility is the summum bonum of old age. —Thomas Jefferson

      How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? —Leroy (Satchel) Paige

      If you’re going to get old you might as well get as old as you can get. —Wallace Stegner

      The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: The work is done. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

      Old age is no such uncomfortable thing, if one gives oneself up to it with a good grace. —Horace Walpole

      Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. —Brigitte Bardot

      It's not how old you are, it's how hard you work at it. —Jonah Barrington

      Men are like wine—some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. —Pope John XXIII

      Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. —Gerald Brenan

      As I approach my middle 70s, they don’t—or I don’t—seem old at all. I am disconcerted to realize how old that seemed to me when I was in my middle 60s. I remember attending friends’ 75th birthdays, astonished that they could still get around. —Page Smith

      Alone/Solitude

      All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone. —Blaise Pascal

      They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. —Philip Sidney

      By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. —George Herbert

      The capacity to be alone becomes linked with self-discovery and self-realization; with becoming aware of one’s deepest needs, feelings, and impulses. —Anthony Storr

      I am never less alone than when alone. —Scipio Africanus

      In solitude, where we are least alone. —Lord Byron

      I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. —Henry David Thoreau

      If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. —Maxwell Maltz

      It is better to be alone than in ill company. —George Pettie

      The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. —Voltaire

      Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. —James Russell Lowell

      You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. —Franz Kafka

      Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. —Josh Billings (H.W. Shaw)

      It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the Great Man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

      The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. —Thomas Edison

      Talent is best nurtured in solitude. —Goethe

      Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. —Thomas De Quincey

      Solitude makes us love ourselves. —A.B. Alcott

      In solitude alone can be known true freedom. —Michel de Montaigne

      The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. —Omar Khayyam

      Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. —Arthur Brisbane

      Anger/Temper

      When you are angry say nothing and do nothing until you have recited the alphabet. —Athenodorus Cananites

      When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. —Mark Twain

      He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy. —Latin Proverb

      We are all crazy when we are angry. —Philemon

      If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. —Chinese Proverb

      How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. —Marcus Aurelius

      When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. —Epictetus

      Peace of mind is better than giving them a piece of your mind.—J.P. McEvoy

      Anger is only one letter short of danger. —Anonymous

      No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. —George Jean Nathan

      Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. —Benjamin Franklin

      Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. —Robert Ingersoll

      People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. —Will Rogers

      You need some positive ways to express and process your anger or it will destroy you. A therapist who uses body release work would be excellent. Writing a hate letter and then burning it would help. So would sitting in front of a mirror and telling the person in question all the things you're angry about. Running or playing tennis are also good outlets, as are screaming in the car or beating the bed or kicking pillows. —Louise L. Hay

      The best cure for anger is delay. —Seneca

      I don't do anything that's bad for me. I don't like to be made nervous or angry. Any time you get upset it tears down your nervous system. —Mae West

      Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. —Bible, Ecclesiastes

      Anger and temper shorten our years. —Jewish Proverb

      He who restrains his temper will have all his sins forgiven. —Jewish Proverb

      A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. —Cicero

      Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. —Baltasar Gracián

      All healthy things are sweet-tempered. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude. —Washington Irving

      Good temper is an estate for life. —William Hazlitt

      Apathy/Indifference

      What the world needs is some do-give-a-damn pills. —William C. Menninger

      The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. —George Bernard Shaw

      The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. —Elie Wiesel

      Mourn not the dead...

      But rather mourn the apathetic throng—

      The cowed and meek

      Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong,

      And dare not speak.

      —Ralph Chaplin

      Where apathy is the master, all men are slaves. —Anonymous

      Neutral men are the devil’s allies. —Edwin Hubbel Chapin

      Aspirations/Goals

      Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. —Louisa May Alcott

      Our aspirations are our possibilities. —Robert Browning

      A noble aim, faithfully kept, is as a noble deed. —William Wordsworth

      There are two things to aim at in life: first, to

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