Health Quotes - Page 18

• If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

  Sally Edwards

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Inspire

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• We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Beauty, Nature, Learning

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

  Chauncey Depew

  Fitness, Exercise, Acting

  "Four Talks for Bibliophiles" by George Allen, (p. 70), 1958.

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• My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fitness, Exercise, Ideas

  "New Again: Janeane Garofalo". Interview with Phyllis Diller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2015.

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• Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

  Norman Mailer

  Fitness, Workout, Responsibility

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

  Neil Armstrong

  Fitness, Running, Believe

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• I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

  Mark Twain

  Fitness, Humorous, Exercise

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fitness, Exercise, Yuppies

  N.Y. Times, 17 Jan. 1985

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• I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fitness, Order, Relaxation

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.752, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Fitness, Teacher

  On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement, April 23, 1956.

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• Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

  Maimonides

  Fitness, Art, Inspire

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• Life is not living, but living in health.

  Martial

  Life, Fitness, Nutrition

  Epigrams VI. 70 (transl. W. C. Ker, 1919)

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• Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Sleep, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fitness, Numbers, Wellness

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• 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 diseases

  Edward Jenner

  Fitness, Men, Disease

  An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox

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• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Eating Well

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• To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Food, Exercise, Cost

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• Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

  Michael Pollan

  Grandmother, Nutrition, Wellness

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• The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

  Goodman Ace

  Body, Forget, Cures

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• My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

  Roy Acuff

  Age, Aging, Old Age

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• There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

  Aeschylus

  Disease, Limits, Neighbor

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• Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Heart, Blessing

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.353, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Robust

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.

  Joan Collins

  Believe, Men, Pills

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