Health Quotes - Page 24

• Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

  Hans Selye

  Healing, Men, Body

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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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• I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Running, Exercise, Wind

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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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• We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

  Joseph Pilates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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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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• You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

  Ernest Holmes

  Knowing, Affair, Ability

  Ernest Holmes, Michael Beckwith (2010). “How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library”, p.266, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

  Prince Philip

  Thinking, Way, Enjoy

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• I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

  Moliere

  Medicine, Medical, Trade

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• It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

  William Osler

  Fate, Medicine, People

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Doctors, Medicine, Secret

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• What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

  Hans Selye

  Thinking, Medicine, Age

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• Health requires healthy food.

  Roger Williams

  Medicine, Medical, Healthy

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

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Medicine, Physicians, Disease

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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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