The Body Book Quotes

“I can't think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipline. Without knowing how to work for it. Without learning how to earn it. I talk to my friends who are writers. I say, "Well, how do you do it?" Most all of them will say, "I sit down. I force myself every day to sit down and write for at least two hours. Whether something comes out of it or doesn't come out of it, whether I finish my fifty pages or two, I sit down and I do that because I have to make myself do it."

That's what a work ethic is. Any person I know who is successful in my business or any other business is so because they work their asses off for it, because nothing is for free. If you want something, if you want to achieve success in any area of life, you must apply your discipline and your work ethic. Because discipline is what helps you consciously do things in order to reach a desired goal. Discipline is a rejection of entitlement and expectation. Discipline is having a strong awareness that your choices have impact and that your actions make a difference.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz

“Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“You live in a world where you can drive through the drive-thru, flop down in a chair to work all day, and spend your evening on the couch, in front of the TV, before you crawl off to your cozy bed. Even if you work hard all day, your day-to-day living can make your body soft. And that softness is a modern-day killer, the equivalent of the savanna-dweller’s lion (actually, the lion was better, since it kept people moving).”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“Healthy is not an accident, a gift, or a rabbit’s foot. It is a HABIT. It is a habit that will shape the bodies that we were born with, a habit that will support the genetic makeup we got from our parents.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“One of my favorite sayings is “Pain is weakness leaving your body.” Isn’t that such a great thing to know? When you push through to the other side of pain, you are stronger for it; you let go of weakness and build resilience in your mind and body. Because the more you resist giving up when you can actually keep going, the more your mind will also adapt—it will learn that it is capable and it will power you through the pain.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“Just because you can put something in your mouth, chew it, swallow it, and then poop it out doesn’t mean it’s food. It just means you can chew it, swallow it, and poop it out.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“If you are not in the habit of being active, you are at risk for a number of ailments that would probably not be an issue if you just moved. Moving your body on a daily basis, continually throughout the day, is your body’s instinct because it is essential to its well-being.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“It is the responsibility of every human, not just dancers, sports stars, kids, and Olympians—to move. To embrace movement. To become movement. To live movement. Because moving can turn a regular Monday into an extraordinary start to your week. It can turn Tuesday into a quest, Wednesday into an adventure, Thursday into a triumph, Friday into a feat. No matter how you spend your days, claiming your right to MOVE is like claiming your FREEDOM.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“Sweetness was a sign that a plant was edible (most plants that are poisonous to humans taste bitter). Sweetness is also an indication that the plant is high in glucose, which meant that it would offer us lots of energy.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“why do I train because muscles are strength and earning them teaches us that we can create our own strength”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz

“A better choice is to look for Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium, because these guys can survive the intense conditions of your stomach for long enough to do some good.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“That is why knowledge is so powerful—because when you really know something inside and out, you can see all of the opportunities to apply that knowledge through action every single day.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“The responsibility to be healthy is in your hands—no one else is going to do it for you. So ask yourself: do you want to live in a body that allows you to do the things you want to do, a body that is full of health and capability, that you are proud to call your own? Because it’s your choice.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“the brain is an astounding and mysterious organ...it has been analyzed and poked and sliced and diced yet nobody has ever seen a personality or a hope or a thought”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz

“We are living in bodies that are overfed and undernourished”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“I always thought that Nike slogan is genius: Just do it. Its genius is in its simplicity. It applies to everything that your brain tries to talk you out of.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz

“Discipline is a rejection of entitlement and expectation”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz

“When it comes to your nutrition, you are what you eat. When it comes to your fitness, you are how you move. Movement shapes your muscles, strengthens your heart and lungs, sharpens your brain and elevates your mood. When you’ve exerted yourself all day – I mean, worked really, really hard, nothing feels better than relaxing afterwards, when you’ve earned that rest. When you spend all day running around, and then you sink into a comfortable couch, you feel like you’re on a cloud. But when you’ve done nothing but sit around all day, you feel terrible, don’t you? It’s like your body is made of lead.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book

“According to a 2005 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, this is the first generation of American kids whose life expectancy is shorter than that of their parents.”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“nobody had a clue about cells, because nobody had”
― Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

“Personally, I choose a rice-based probiotic drink that delivers fifty billion active L. acidophilus and L. casei bacteria.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body