As we begin the new year, we’ve gathered famous words that prolific writers, philosophers, scientists and others have said about living and aging well. These words of wisdom can remind us to live a healthy and active life every day.
Here are some words to live by from some of our favorite people:
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The first wealth is health.”
2. Naomi Judd
“Your body hears everything your mind says.”
3. Leslie Grimutter
“My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.”
4. Thomas Edison
“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
5. Plato
“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.”
6. Deepak Chopra
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
7. Carl Sandburg
“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and some are not.”
8. Marcus Valerius Martialis
“Life is not merely being alive, but being well.”
