As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

Big, sweeping¹ life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009

The refreshing² pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement³ of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

Cher (1946 - )

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly⁴ as much as in the pond.

Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady⁵.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

George Dennison Prentice

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings⁷, and learn how by his own thought to derive⁸ benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen in Health

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing⁶ that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Jackie Mason (1934 - )