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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. - Doug Larson.

Overcoming limiting or destructive tendencies and habits pays dividends in both vitality and self-respect as the seasons pass. - Dan Millman, Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. - Winston Churchill.

Your food shall be your medicine. - Hippocrates.

It is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a higher vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness, no negativity, no discord and violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light. - Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. - Benjamin Franklin.

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

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

Nature cures, not the physician-- Hippocrates

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
--Irish Proverb

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. -- Danish Proverb

Things are not brought into being by thinking their opposites. Health is
never to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease;
righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about
sin; and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about
poverty.-- Wallace D. Wattles, Science of Getting Rich

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. --
Napoleon I

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start
tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. -- V.L. Allineare

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result
is the definition of insanity. -- Albert Einstein

Tell me what a man eats and how he treats his body and I will tell you how
long that man will live! -- Dr. Benedict Lust

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot
through the grass. -- Leslie Grimutter

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only
consult Dr. Sun more. -- Henry Ward Beecher

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. --
Charles Simmons

Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy.-- Author Unknown

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole
cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.--Thich Nhat Hanh

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.-- Albert Schweitzer

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

William Cowper: Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is
a mind distressed.

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

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

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.

Dagobert D. Runes: Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

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

" Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the
year."
-- Franklin P. Adams

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" Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. "
--Erma Bombeck

" Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice? "
--George Carlin
" The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest
would gladly part with all their money for health. "
--Charles Caleb Colton
" 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
" You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well."
-- Wayne Dyer
" Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
" The first wealth is health."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
-- Benjamin Franklin
" Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing."
--Redd Foxx
" Health is not valued till sickness comes."
--Dr. Thomas Fuller
" A Hospital is no place to be sick."
--Samuel Goldwyn
" Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
--Hannah Green
" Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole
cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything."
--Thich Nhat Hanh
" A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human
blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his
illnesses."
--Hippocrates
" The groundwork of all happiness is health."
-- Leigh Hunt
" The oneness of mind and body holds the secret of illness and health. "
--Arnold Hutschnecker
" Health is worth more than learning."
--Thomas Jefferson
" We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in
general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
-- Benjamin Jowett
" One out of 4 people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your
3 closest friends-if they seem okay, then you're the one."
--Ann Landers
" To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately,
cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."
-- William Londen
" It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding
a sickness you like."
--Jackie Mason
" Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."
--Robert Orben
" What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet,
isn't much better than tedious disease."
--George Dennison Prentice
" 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."
-- Anthony Robbins
" Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
-- Jim Rohn
" Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
--Albert Schweitzer
" A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to
take care of his tools."
-- Spanish Proverb
" People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard
up a treasure which they never enjoy."
-- Laurence Sterne
" Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. "
--Henry David Thoreau
" Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
--Mark Twain
" The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures
the disease."
--François Voltaire
" Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it."
-- Unknown
" Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and
appreciate until they have been depleted."
-- Denis Waitley
" Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to
conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable
of, a blessing money can't buy."
--Izaak WaltonMost people think that aging is irreversible. We know that there are
mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of
aging, through correction of diet, through antioxidants, through removal
of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing
techniques, and through meditation - Dr Deepak Chopra
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your
life by 30 to 50 years. - Dr Deepak Chopra
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
There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their
health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is
not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel
Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled
as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
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 power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore,
common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes
matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly
been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey
Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~Author Unknown
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing. ~Redd Foxx
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something
fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be
seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting
off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas,
The Medusa and the Snail, 1979
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
~Author Unknown
The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his
doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of
myself. ~Leon Eldred
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark
Twain
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
~Tommy Smothers
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
~Chi Chi Rodriguez
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed
higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert
Ingersoll
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb,
sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in
for catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of
the body. ~Cicero
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
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
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just
escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri
Frederic Amiel
The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is
my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
~John Redman Coxe, 1800
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~Irish Proverb
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice,
the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of
consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
~Henry Lytton Bulwer
Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
~Napoleon I
The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.
~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A
Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies
stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. ~Alison
Rose Levy, "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance
unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that
have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that
fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the
thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but
once. ~Thomas Browne
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't
much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana,
1860
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make
promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start
tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. ~V.L. Allineare
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot
through the grass. ~Leslie Grimutter
We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is
impossible. ~CiceroSickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation
of her laws. ~Charles Simmons
Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a
sound body.) ~Juvenal
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow,
like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
Nature does require
Her time of preservation, which perforce
I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal
Must give my attendance to.
~William Shakespeare
Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose
it. ~Josh Billings
A healthy body and soul come from an unencumbered mind and body. ~Ymber
Delecto
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb
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
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. ~Thomas Dekker, Westward
Ho, 1604
Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. ~Martin H. Fischer
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John
Henry Cardinal Newman
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither
them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my
headaches. ~V.L. Allineare
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
~Francis Bacon
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and
spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole
being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West
Hear your heart. Heart your health. ~Faith Seehill
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.
~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld
From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.
~Catalan Proverb
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that
he is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's
health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep
An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa.
~Madrianne Arvore
Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. ~Author Unknown
Every man's disease is his personal property. ~Alonzo Clark
Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind supports the body too.
~John Armstrong
When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay down and relax for
a while before trying to get back up. ~Candea Core-Starke
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a
good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair
into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert
Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world
backwards and sideways, 1932
Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise
or Temperance. ~Joseph Addison
A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our
friends. ~Kin Hubbard
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of
by them. ~Aldous Huxley
I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my
aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes
to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda
If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that
responsibility for you. ~Carrie Latet
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an
ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that
will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke
To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng
When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. ~Jules Romains, Dr. Knock,
1923
If your body's not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take
care of yourself. ~V.L. Allineare
After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to
preserve health. ~James Howell
When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by
nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward
Jenner
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
~Charles Dickens
Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. ~Martin H. Fischer
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a
sickness. ~DeForest Clinton Jarvis
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their
origin there. ~Moliere
Without health, there is no point. To anything. ~Everett Mámor
Confidence and hope do more good than physic. ~Galen
Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music.
~A. Cornelius Celsus
My inner advisor is dying to heal me. ~Astrid Alauda
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well
and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the
good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a
spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan
Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the
birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles
Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it,
but the latter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its
resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has
to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other
men's necessities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your
health the better. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death
of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H.
Fischer
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria
has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.
~John Diamond
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic
Proverb
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself,
may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis,
Lotus-Eating
It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are "heal."
~Ed Northstrum
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually
live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27
December 1964
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually
find that you are sick. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose
If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not
do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly
eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding
a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown
May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you
rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer
Stanhope, 1749
What linguistic genius
set up the sneeze and wheeze
To rhyme so very perfectly
with the word for allergies?
~Charlie N. Abbers
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good
health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. ~Sydney J.
Harris
My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure
worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John
Mortimer
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend
their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family
Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what
you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. ~Mark Twain