Quote of Gautama Buddha - The secret of health for both...

Biography - Gautama Buddha:

Siddhārtha Gautama. Founder of Buddhism.
Period:
5th century BC
6th century BC
Place of birth: Nepal

Quote

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha

Translation

(German, French)

Das Geheimnis der Gesundheit für Körper und Geist ist nicht zu trauern für die Vergangenheit, noch über die Zukunft sorgen, sondern klug und ernsthaft der Gegenwart zu leben.”
Siddhartha Gautama

Le secret de la santé, autant pour le corps que pour l’esprit, c’est de ne pas pleurer sur le passé, ne pas s’inquiéter du futur, ni anticiper les problèmes… mais de vivre dans le moment présent, sagement et sincèrement.”
Siddhartha Gautama

Quotes about health:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Health is the primary duty of life.”
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Karl Marx

health

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
Jean de La Bruyere

health

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Mark Twain

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All about health...

Quotes for: body:

A healthy mind in a healthy body.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle

With most people the heart grows old with the body.”
Guy de Maupassant

Strength and weakness of mind are mis-named; they are really only the good or happy arrangement of our bodily organs.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

All body quotes...

Quotes about mind:

Hide your life and spread your spirit.”
Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres

A healthy mind in a healthy body.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller

It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The spirit of a language reveals itself most clearly in its untranslatable words.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

All about mind...

Quotes about the past:

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere

The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
Victor Hugo

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
René Descartes

All about the past...

Quotes about the present:

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
Seneca

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
Leonardo da Vinci

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.”
Simone de Beauvoir

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere

The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

All about the present...

Quotes about the future:

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
Seneca

Man is the future of man.”
Francis Ponge

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Alan Watts

The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

All about the future...

Gautama Buddha also said...

Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.”
Gautama Buddha

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