Health Quotes - Page 20

• Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

  Laughter, Exertion

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• Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

  Henry George Bohn

  Funny, Patience, Time

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• Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

  Christian D. Larson

  Optimistic, Optimism, Prosperity

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

  George Carlin

  Helping, Cherish, Staying Young

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• It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fear, Men, Worry

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• A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Knowledge, Medicine

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• Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Science, Light, Inspire

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• The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

  Ashley Montagu

  Science, Doctors, Taught

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• Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Adversity, Society

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.349

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• A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

  Marlo Thomas

  Children, Cancer, Hunger Poverty

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• Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

  Harrison Ford

  Strength, Nature, Vitality

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• I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

  Susan Sontag

  Courage, Inspire, Dare

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• Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.

  Jim Rohn

  Fitness, Jobs, Night

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 14, 2016

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Attitude, Yoga

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Medicine, Nurse, Giving

  Tristia

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• 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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