If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer. - Jack LaLanne
I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer -- that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God. - Jack LaLanne
I never think of my age, never - I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me. - Jack LaLanne
I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years. - Jack LaLanne
My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it! - Jack LaLanne
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline. - Jack LaLanne
I was the worst, most sickly kid of all - 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem. - Jack LaLanne
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. - Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. - Epictetus
Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is anothers. - Epictetus
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. - Epictetus
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. - Epictetus
Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense. - Jason Mraz
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. - Jason Mraz
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