Get Well quotes
122 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."
"The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well."
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."
"The body says what words cannot."
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"Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better."
"Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
"I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully."
"Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick."
"We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well."
"I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever."
"Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived."
"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else."
"In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well."
"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper."
"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."
"In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity."
"Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."
"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself."
"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
"Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship."
"Time heals all wounds."
"Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up."
"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
"It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive."
