"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." Carol Welch

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."
 Joan Welsh

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

"Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?" Bible

"When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score." John Enoch Powell

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain." Susan B. Anthony

"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired." Unknown

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." Benjamin Franklin

"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind." John F. Kennedy

"...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health." Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." J. Krishnamurti, author, speaker, and philosopher (1895-1986)

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul." John Muir

"Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it." Albert Richard Smith, author and entertainer (1816-1860)

"Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret." Leo Rangell

"For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls." Mark Nepo

"Music is the voice of the universe, it is the voice of humanity and is part of our existence. Good music is the harmonization of all the vibrations of which matter consists, and it restores us to ourselves and to our universe. It is the bond that we have between our own frequencies and those frequencies which vibrate millions of light years away. I have always felt that music is basically therapeutic." Yehudi Menuhin

"The soul is healed by being with children." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist (1821-1881)

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." Ben Williams

"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and 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

"We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.: Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

"The soul is healed by being with children." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist (1821-1881)

“Solvitur ambulando.” (It is solved by walking.) St. Augustine

"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die." anonymous

"He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of the most medicines." Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

“At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.” Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom

“Art is a wound turned into light.” Georges Braque

“In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch-starved.” Diane Ackerman, writer

“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.” Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)