Think, Eat, Be Healthy

Food And Health Quotes To Live By

squash salad

A whole food diet and healthy lifestyle make all of life easier. These food and health quotes make that lifestyle easier.

About my 26 food and health quotes

The following are my favorite food and health quotes. I find reading through these quote occasionally keeps me focused on the importance of a healthy whole food diet and also on the importance of health to everything else. Hopefully, you will find them just as helpful and motivating as I have. I look at these quotes as a list of healthy diet tips to keep me on the path to whole food health.

We all need some inspiration now and then. We can all use a little extra motivation when the going gets tough. Just knowing someone else has been there and done that can make all the difference. That is the way I use these quotes. I hope they help you, too.

26 great food and health quotes

“If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?”
“Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” ~Edward Stanley

You don't have to be a competitive athlete to reap the health rewards of exercise. Just move more every day.

You don’t have to be a competitive athlete to reap the health rewards of exercise. Just move more every day.

“Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy”
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.” – Dorothy Day

There is more room for awe in every day when the body, mind and soul are all healthy.

There is more room for awe in every day when the body, mind and soul are all healthy.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~Hippocrates
“He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.” ~Chinese Proverb
“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” -Lewis Grizzard
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.” ~B.K.S. Iyengar
“True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington”
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” ~Spanish Proverb

four evils

Ignoring the world is not a solution to any problem.

“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha
“Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.” ~Joseph Addison
“The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.” ~Robert C. Peale
“The best doctor gives the least medicine” – Benjamin Franklin
“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.” ~Cicero
“First we eat, then we do everything else.” -M.F.K. Fisher
“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” -Anna Thomas

Eat well for maximum health and happiness.

Eat well for maximum health and happiness. Let these food and health quotes keep you on track.

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces, just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child
“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” – Ayurvedic proverb
“The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.”
The food you eat can be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. – Ann Wigmore
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
” I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” – Joyce Meyer

“A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us. ” ― Pema Chödrön

chocolate candy

Being healthy lets us face our fears.

“Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.”
― Michael Pollan
The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. ~St Frances de Sales
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.” rashaski · Zen Proverb

like-share blog insert 1