Health Quotes - Page 24

• Music is the medicine of the mind.

  John Logan

  Music, Healing, Medicine

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• I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

  Carol Leifer

  Funny, Pain, Philosophy

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• True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

  Brandon Bays

  Healing, Giving, Self Improvement

  Brandon Bays (2010). “Freedom Is: Liberating Your Boundless Potential”, p.89, New World Library

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• It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?"

  Patch Adams

  Healing, Lasts, Months

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• The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.

  Alexis Carrel

  Healing, Cells, Medicine

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• Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.

  Herbert Benson

  Pain, Memories, Stress

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• There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

  Herbert Benson

  Healing, People, Forgiving

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• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Independence, Conformity

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• My health is good enough about the shoulders.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Good Enough, Shoulders

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• The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change.

  Lois Gibbs

  Lessons To Be Learned, Voice, Order

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• It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

  Lois Gibbs

  Children, Work, Moving

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• A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Three, Diagnosis, Remedy

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• Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.

  Herb Shriner

  Doctors, Hands, Needs

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• I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

  W. Heath Robinson

  Mad, Secret, Satisfaction

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• A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

  August Bier

  Mother, Smart, Doctors

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• The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.

  Maximilian Bircher-Benner

  Light, Cells, Green Plants

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• Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Medicine, Physicians, Disease

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• Health requires healthy food.

  Roger Williams

  Medicine, Medical, Healthy

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• Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.

  Henry E. Sigerist

  Medicine, Goal, Physicians

  Medicine and Human Welfare Ch. 3

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• In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.

  Marcel Proust

  Medicine, Errors, Years

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• A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.

  Eric Berne

  Persons, Healthy, Unhealthy

  "They Shoot Managers, Don't They?: Managing Yourself and Leading Others in a Changing World". Book by Terry L. Paulson, p. 3, 1991.

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• I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

  Oliver Sacks

  Delight, Patient, Painting

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• The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease.

  Hilton Hotema

  Men, Medicine, Deterioration

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• The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.

  Henry Lindlahr

  Medicine, Drug, Disease

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• What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is an entity called diseasewhich can be expelled when the right drug is found?

  John Henry Tilden

  Ideas, Medicine, Drug

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