Health Quotes - Page 18

• We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Exercise, Medicine, Nurse

  "On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Ch. 2, 1969.

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• Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.

  Jill Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Weight Loss

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• To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

  Herophilos

  Null, Useless, Wealth

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• There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health

  Dalton McGuinty

  Ministry, Care, Able

  Committee Documents: Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly. Bill 41, Patients First Act, www.ontla.on.ca. November 21, 2016.

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• In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.

  Brian Day

  Design, Decision, Physicians

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• When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.

  Brian Day

  Government, Common Threads, Firsts

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• The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

  C. Everett Koop

  Education, Kind, Literacy

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• Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.

  Stephen Covey

  Workout, Exercise, Weight Loss

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.365, Mango Media Inc.

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Nature, Garden

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

  Joseph Addison

  Serenity, Soul, Ease

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.253

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• O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
  Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
  When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
  Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Strong, Rocks

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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• Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Taken, Healing

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• Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result

  Edgar Cayce

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Drinking, Men, Alcohol

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• Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

  Blythe Danner

  Children, Future, Responsibility

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• The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Essence, Addresses, Poverty

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• Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Stress, Years, Body

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• Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

  Aeschylus

  Art, Crazy, Writing

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Positivity, Thinking, Feelings

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• Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.

  Prentice Mulford

  Body, Remember, Bad Things

  Robert C. Worstell, Prentice Mulford “Thoughts Are Things - Secrets to the Law of Attraction”, Lulu.com

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• Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.

  Robert Collier

  Perfect, Shadow, Disease

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of the Ages: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.104, Lulu Press, Inc

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