Health
• Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. -William Temple
• To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. -Richard Baker
• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. -George Dennison Prentice
• Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow’r, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. -John Gay
• As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. -Adelle Davis
• Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. -James H. Boren
• Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.–Margiad Evans
• People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. -Laurence Sterne
• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. -Leo Tolstoy
• He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. -Chinese Proverb
• Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it; if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it. -Henry Ford
• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. -G.K. Chesterton
• Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. -Lord Chesterfield
• Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. -World Health Organization, 1948
• The… patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. -Quentin Regestein
• Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor’s nose. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 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. -Elbert Hubbard
• Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. -Denis Waitley
• The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. -Helen Rowland
• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. -G.K. Chesterton
• Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. -Ivan Illich
• Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” -Jim Rohn
• The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones. -Peter McWilliams
• To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. -William Londen
• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. -Addison
• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. -Herbert Spencer
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -Albert Schweitzer
• People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. -Laurence Sterne
• Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
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