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Health Quotations

Hippocrates:

Food is the best medicine and the best foods are the best medicines.

 

Hippocrates:

Let thy food be thy medicine.

 

Proverb:
A good rest is half the work.

 

John Knowles:

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

 

Spanish Proverb:
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

 

Joseph Addison:
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

 

Benjamin Franklin:
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.:
Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding.

 

Irwin Sarason:
Good friends are good for your health.

 

Frank Tyger:
Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.

 

Albert Schweitzer:
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

 

Arabian Proverb:
He, who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

 

William Londen:
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

 

Og Mandingo:
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

 

Humboldt:
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

 

Charles Caleb Colton:
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

 

William Penn:
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

 

Bernard Shaw:
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

 

Thomas Carlyle:
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

 

Ben Franklin:
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

 

Richard Bach:
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and

not another.

 

Mark Twain:
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

 

Wayne Dyer:
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.

 

Jim Rohn:
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The first wealth is health.

 

Leigh Hunt:
The groundwork of all happiness is health.

 

Anthony Robbins:
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

 

Henry Maudsley:
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

 

Thomas Jefferson:
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

 

Josh Billings:
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.

 

Denis Waitley:
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

 

Henry Ward Beecher:
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

 

Richard Baker:
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

 

Herophilus, 300 BC:

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is s useless, reason is powerless.

 

Italian Proverb:

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.

 

William Blake:

What is now proved was once only imagined.

 

Gautama the Buddha, 563 BC:

To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

 

Hippocrates:

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

 

Francis Bacon:

A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.

 

Elbert Hubbard:

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

 

Francois Rabelais:

Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering.

 

Unknown:

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

 

Quentin Regenstein:

The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of their own life.  Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

 

Oliver Wendell Homes:

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

 

Chinese Proverb:

Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are heade.

 

Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb:

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.  When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.

 

Ralph Waldo Emmerson:

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

 

Galen:

The physician is nature’s assistant.

 

Maimoindes:

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated b  other means.

 

La Rochefoucauld:

To eat is necessary, but to eat intelligently is an art.

 

Hippocrates:

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.

 

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957:

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival.  His mind is given to him, its contents is not.  His body is given to him, its sustenance is not.  He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it.

 

Virginia Woolf, 1929:

One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not dined well.

 

Lin Yutang:

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

 

Thomas Henry Huxley:

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notation, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.