posted October 25, 2006 09:50 PM
Think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau
Live in rooms full of light. ~Cornelius Celsus
The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
The sun is nature's Prozac. ~Astrid Alauda, 1990
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~John Muir
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. ~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. ~Author Unknown
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial
Light, God's eldest daughter... ~Thomas Fuller
Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato
After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. ~English Saying
A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant," 1820
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~Henry Miller
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~G.M. Trevelyan
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. ~Aretaeus
Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
~Rubaiyat of Rumi
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light." ~Laurens van der Post
Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens
Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist
After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
~John Milton
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. ~Jean Asper McIntosh
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
What fools indeed we morals are
To lavish care upon a Car,
With ne'er a bit of time to see
About our own machinery!
~John Kendrick Bangs
An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. ~James Michener
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~Joey Adams
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
~Edward Young, Night Thoughts
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ~Peter De Vries
Thoughts come clearly while one walks. ~Thomas Mann
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~Soren Kierkegaard
When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad. ~Janette Barber
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. ~Horace
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ~Matthew Arnold
The body never lies. ~Martha Graham
Your body is built for walking. ~Gary Yanker
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ~Earl Nightingale
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic
Now shall I walk
or shall I ride?
"Ride," Pleasure said:
"Walk," Joy replied.
~W.H. Davies
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good old days. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physical demythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, roofless wandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right to walk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. ~Theodor W. Adorno
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~Paul Scott Mowrer, The House of Europe
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding. ~Amy Yasbeck
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught,
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
~John Dryden
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. ~Benjamin Franklin
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841
Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself. ~Author Unknown
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for. ~Henry David Thoreau
The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato
When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anaïs Nin
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. ~Peace Pilgrim
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer
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