As we get older, many of us are thinking about life, health, and happiness. If you’re looking for inspiration in any or all of these areas, you’re in luck.

Read on for a collection of inspiring quotes about each topic. Some are positive, others are funny, and all of them will give you something to think about.

1. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

3. A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.- Jess C. Scott

4. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates

5. I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. – Steve Marabodi

6. When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. – Herophilus

7. The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling. – Nursery rhyme

8. Respect your body. Eat well. Dance forever. – Eliza Gaynor Minden

9. The First wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. – Buddha

11. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

12. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde

13. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams

14. Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. – Wayne Dyer

15. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

16. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut

17. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – J.K. Rowling

18. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma

19. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. – Dudley Field Malone

20. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

21. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit – Aristotle

22. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

23. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

24. It is okay to be angry. It is never okay to be cruel. – unknown

Love

25. You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love. – Richelle Mead

26. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

27. Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it – Rumi

28. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. – Henry Miller

29. To say I love you one must first be able to say I – Ayn Rand

30. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

31. The chance to love and be love exists no matter where you are. – Oprah

32. Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. – Ursula K. Le Guin

33. Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface. – Truman Capote

34. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. – James Baldwin

35. True love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach

36. The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel

37. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them- – Abraham Lincoln

38. Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. – Khalil Gibran

39. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. – Bertrand Russell

40. Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. – Jane Austen

There you have it: a collection of some of the most motivational, uplifting, and down-to-earth quotes on record. Did we include your favorite? What inspiring quote would you add to this list?