Top 100 Andrew Weil Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The essence of health is inner balance.”

— Andrew Weil

2. “Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.”

— Andrew Weil

3. “There’s no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work.”

— Andrew Weil

4. “Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.”

— Andrew Weil

5. “The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.”

— Andrew Weil

6. “Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable.”

— Andrew Weil

7. “I don’t think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although the forms of stress may change from culture to culture, and from time to time.”

— Andrew Weil

8. “Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.”

— Andrew Weil

9. “You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.”

— Andrew Weil

10. “If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.”

— Andrew Weil

11. “Our feet are our body’s connection to the earth.”

— Andrew Weil

12. “Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.”

— Andrew Weil

13. “You’ve got to experiment to figure out what works.”

— Andrew Weil

14. “Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.”

— Andrew Weil

15. “For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.”

— Andrew Weil

16. “Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.”

— Andrew Weil

17. “Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.”

— Andrew Weil

18. “Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.”

— Andrew Weil

19. “Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.”

— Andrew Weil

20. “At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it.”

— Andrew Weil

21. “As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.”

— Andrew Weil

22. “As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.”

— Andrew Weil

23. “I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.”

— Andrew Weil

24. “It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.”

— Andrew Weil

25. “Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.”

— Andrew Weil

26. “I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.”

— Andrew Weil

27. “I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.”

— Andrew Weil

28. “Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.”

— Andrew Weil

29. “Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.”

— Andrew Weil

30. “Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.”

— Andrew Weil

31. “If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.”

— Andrew Weil

32. “Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.”

— Andrew Weil

33. “Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.”

— Andrew Weil

34. “The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying – as common sense sometimes impels us to do – can be hazardous to your health.”

— Andrew Weil

35. “Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.”

— Andrew Weil

36. “Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.”

— Andrew Weil

37. “Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.”

— Andrew Weil

38. “It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.”

— Andrew Weil

39. “Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.”

— Andrew Weil

40. “The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it’s own mechanisms.”

— Andrew Weil

41. “The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”

— Andrew Weil

42. “We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.”

— Andrew Weil

43. “There’s no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.”

— Andrew Weil

44. “My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.”

— Andrew Weil

45. “I’ve always been called “controversial.” I think if I were not controversial I wouldn’t be doing my job.”

— Andrew Weil

46. “In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.”

— Andrew Weil

47. “Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can – in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.”

— Andrew Weil

48. “In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”

— Andrew Weil

49. “Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.”

— Andrew Weil

50. “We’re all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.”

— Andrew Weil