Studies have shown that happiness and other positive emotions play an important role in health. Yes, a healthier life begins with a happier life. As they say, laughter is the best medicine. So is positive psychology; it can bring emotional resilience that contributes to good health and a good outlook in life. This is why happy people are less stressed out than their unhappy counterparts. Health and happiness simply goes hand in hand.
"To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life." - William Londen
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." -Irish Proverb
"The greatest wealth is health." -Virgil
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul." - Aristotle
"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." -Doug Larson
"Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it." -Josh Billings
"Mirth is the medicine of life; it cures its ills and calms its strife."- Unknown
"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
"The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." - Mark Twain
"Health is my expected heaven." - John Keats
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend." - Benjamin Disraeli
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united." - Humboldt
"Laughter is the most healthful exertion." - Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [Image: photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net]