Big Ambitions

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit. - Phyllis Diller

Didn't he take the exercise tax off cars? - Archie Bunker

A critic is a legless man who teaches running. - Channing Pollock

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. - Dag Hammarskjold

The wish for healing has always been half of health. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked. - Desikashar

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. - Groucho Marx

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions. - Ang Lee

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

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road? - German Proverb

Being in a good frame of mind helps one keep in the picture of health. - Unknown

Middle age is when you are not inclined to exercise anything but caution. - Arthur Murray

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost. - Valerie Jarrett

Health is like money - we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. - Josh Billings

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. - Ashley Wagner

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. - P.J. O'Rourke

It isn't failing that spells one's downfall; it's running away, giving up. - Michel Greco

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. - Rwandan Proverb

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. - Brene Brown

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. - Orville Wright

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. - B.K. Iyengar

I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within. - Hayley Williams

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? - Paul Harvey

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs. - Katya Zamolodchikova

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

Figure out what you hope for. Live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides. - Barbara Kingsolver

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. - Alan Menken

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough. - Propertius

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. - John M. Good

My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already. - Milton Berle

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

Health is the finest possession. Contentment is the ultimate wealth. Trustworthy people are the best relatives. Unbinding is the supreme ease. - Buddha

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. - Unknown

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. - Toni Morrison