“I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.”

— Jerome K. Jerome, book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

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English humorist 1859–1927

Gene Fowler (1890–1960) American journalist

Attributed without citation in Military Chaplains' Review, Chaplains, U.S. Army. (1981), p. 144

“I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Source: Poems

“I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific”

W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author

Daily mantra for positive self-suggestion which he recommended in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) and his teachings.

“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“I have never worked as hard as now. I go for a brief walk in the morning. Then I come home and sit in my room without interruption until about three o’clock. My eyes can barely see. Then with my walking stick in hand I sneak off to the restaurant, but am so weak that I believe that if somebody were to call out my name, I would keel over and die. Then I go home and begin again. In my indolence during the past months I had pumped up a veritable shower bath, and now I have pulled the string and the ideas are cascading down upon me: healthy, happy, merry, gay, blessed children born with ease and yet all of them with the birthmark of my personality.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Letter from Berlin to Emil Boesen, May 25, 1843, Letter 82
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

“Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Geh recht viel spazieren, dass Du recht gesund wirst und lies nicht gar zu viel sondern spar Dir noch was auf bis Du gross bist.
Letter to his son Eduard Einstein (June 1918)
1910s