Exercise Quotes

“Gribble’s journey was in many ways different from others around him. He was often looked after and fed by local village chiefs where news was exchanged and advice given on both sides. He was concerned that the lives of the Kachin and Naga people were being turned upside down by the thousands of refugees. Later he was overwhelmed with worries about his own survival, but even at that final stage he had contact with local guides.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“The Japs,” said one Indian, “have reduced Mandalay to ashes, and their bombers are operating all over the country. They are a barbarous foe and have butchered many of their prisoners.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“Vital sign 2: breathe easy (page 52-53)

How well you breathe has a direct correlation to your body mechanics, helping you move more efficiently, avoid injury, and feel less musculoskeletal pain. In fact, when people come to us with persistent back and neck aches, the first thing we look at is how they're breathing.”
― Kelly Starrett, Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully

“There is one thing no one tells you about exercise: how you feel about what you do transforms the effect it has on you.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“Health is a balance of body, mind, and spirit. Physical activity, mental clarity, and emotional well-being work together to create vitality. Neglecting one aspect can affect the others, so holistic care is essential.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“The mantra of this book is that nothing about the biology of exercise makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about exercise as a behavior makes sense except in the light of anthropology.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

“The resulting paradox is that our bodies never evolved to function optimally without lifelong physical activity, but our minds never evolved to get us moving, unless it is necessary, pleasurable or otherwise rewarding. The plank is down in the post-industrial world and we struggle to replace physical activity with exercise an optional and often disagreeable behaviour. Despite being badgered to exercise by doctors, trainers, gym, teachers and others we often avoid it.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

“Humans went from experiential and physical beings to conceptual ones, and one could surmise that in the future we will become even more brainy still. The changes in sedentary lifestyle alone are staggering. Dietary changes might have led to a diabetes since there may be different levels of pancreatic reserve. The explosion of carbohydrate intake that moderns indulge in may surpass the limit of the pancreas to endure, resulting in either childhood diabetes or later onset type 2 diabetes. We must be careful not to outsmart ourselves and in vanquishing the predators that plagues us for millions of years to create new ones. Having moved from chaos to order, we need to appreciate order’s value, to protect and enhance it. Any slide into chaos may well be swift and irreversible.”
― Steven Lesk M.D., Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness

“Spend your body's energy like energy is free!”
― Aegelis

“A healthy love life is as necessary to a person’s well-being as nutritious food, exercise, or clean water.”
― Stephanie Cacioppo, Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

“The burn of my muscles felt like relief, as though I could purge the tension within me through microscopic tearing,”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“It was not the pain itself I craved but something I refused to articulate even to myself, whose true nature I feared to know. It sufficed, leaving me sweating, spent, and fractionally closer to being strong.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“So, you’re a beginner in meditation? Awesome! Welcome to the calm club. Think of meditation as a mental workout—no sweat, just serenity. Find your comfy spot, close your eyes, and focus on your breath. When your thoughts wander (and they will), gently steer them back like herding cats on caffeine. Keep at it, and you’ll be zenning out like a guru in no time. Remember, even the Dalai Lama started somewhere. So, stick with it, and enjoy your journey to becoming a meditation maestro!”
― Life is Positive

“Staying healthy is like playing the long game in Monopoly. You've got to make those strategic moves now if you want to build those fancy hotels on Park Place later. So, instead of Boardwalk, think salad bowl. Swap out those late-night snacks for some shut-eye, hydrate like you're a plant on the verge of wilting, and get those steps in like you're auditioning for 'Dancing with the Stars.' And hey, if all else fails, remember: laughter is the best medicine. Stay healthy, stay happy!”
― Life is Positive

“He no longer squints in abject confusion at the name of an exercise on his training sheet and does not look at the weighted bar I give him as though waiting for it to issue his marching orders. His body flows from one stance to the next instead of battering the mat or squeaking across the floor. He does not conclude an abdominal exercise and then remark that his neck feels overused.”
― S. Venugopal, Body Traitor's History

“A long and happy life stems from being content about the past, optimistic for the future and engaged in the present.”
― Wendy Shillam, Glorious Summer: Happy and healthy ageing

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“We must not stress ourselves too much over a singular factor like exercise or special diets. We must work out our karmic tribulations and crises that are brought from our past mistakes.”
― Master Del Pe, Higher Science of Longevity

“The way I see it there are three ways to maintain yourself in the present moment: Firstly, you can meditate. Secondly, you can exercise. Meditation makes people want to exercise, that is why I listed it as number one. Thirdly, and this will probably cause a lot of disagreement, is to drink alcohol. My explanation for this is based upon experience with all three. If you do not mediate or exercise and you do not drink alcohol, then it has been my experience that over time you start to slip away from the present moment, and weaken mentally. Drinking will bring you back to it temporarily. That is why people say they need a good “blowout”, they need to reset. But of course, drinking can be a dangerous addiction and cause you to do unreasonable acts, plus damage your body.”
― Jack Freestone

“The health of a soul depends on the ability to nourish it with the Word, exercise it with God’s ways, and strengthen it with faith.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“Vital sign 1: getting up and down the floor (page 40)

When we talk about sitting on the floor, we're not just referring to sitting cross-legged. You can get benefits from sitting in all different kinds of positions. Kneeling, for instance. And, squatting, something we'll talk more about in Vital Sign 7. These are all positions that allow you to organize your body in ways that lessen the force on the spine and enable you to breathe fully. There's a reason that cross-legged sitting and kneeling are the postures of choice for meditation, the former most especially.”
― Kelly Starrett, Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully

“Exercise is activity that remakes your body. What we don’t always realize is that it also remakes your brain.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“Invest in physical exercise. It comes with a lot of rewards, including a more productive life.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

“Exercise to stay fit and healthy. Read to learn from the finest people. Meditate to experience more peace.”
― Robert Celner

“When we move together, particularly in synchrony with other people, it alters our mindset. It alters what’s happening in our brains in a way that allows us to experience ourselves as connected to something bigger than ourselves.

…We experience this in collective labor or when we’re in church doing a religious ritual—when we synchronize our behaviors together, we feel this kind of transcendence. Sometimes people talk about it only in terms of the endorphin rush you get. But you can get an endorphin rush from a lot of things…

Our perceptual system begins to make us literally expand our sense of self. When you move with other people, you feel like you are bigger, and your sense of self transcends the limits of your own body. It’s not like you just feel connected to other people, you feel like you and the others that you’re moving with are one. And you sense the energy and the possibility and that feeling of expansiveness that is the whole group moving. The research suggests this is a psychological state that gives us tremendous hope.”
― Kelly McGonigal

“Intentionally getting into your body helps you develop the habit of getting out of your head. Deliberately shifting focus to physical movement, sensation and strain will bring you back to the present moment. It moves you away from distracting thoughts that don't serve you. The next time you find yourself in a loop of overthinking, confusion, or indecision, get in your body and move.”
― Lillian So, So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life

“Moving your body every day will manage and reduce your cortisol levels. It'll shift your body from fight or flight mode to rest and digest mode, controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for undoing the work of the sympathetic nervous system. It brings the body back to rest and relaxation mode by reducing stress in the body”
― Lillian So, So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life

“Kelley also marked 1965 as a turning point for another profound reason. That year, he discovered the work of author Ayn Rand. She was a figure who embodied the inner fortitude he lacked. Her writings struck him with the force of lightning. Rand's fiercely armored heroes ignited a fierce resolve in Kelley. It was a fire that mere introspection could never spark. This was no longer a time for lingering in emotion. It demanded action. He abandoned drinking. He embraced a rigorous exercise regimen. He revolutionized his diet. He dropped twenty pounds.”
― Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion

“Exercise is the closest thing we have to a wonder drug.”
― Tom Frieden, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own

“It was so freeing to allow her mind and her heart the opportunity to step aside and simply watch her body work.
Better that they keep quiet. She had to listen to them catastrophize all the time. But this moment of tranquility was for her body alone.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon