Health Quotes - Page 25

• If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

  Herodotus

  Two, Soul, Body

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• His art is the health of the artist.

  Harold Clurman

  Art, Artist, Art Is

  Harold Clurman (1974). “The divine pastime: theatre essays”

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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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• 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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• 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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• The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Natural, Force

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• PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Dog, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Silence, Sorrow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4574, Manonmani Publishers

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• The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Men, Succeed

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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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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• This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

  Sidney Jourard

  Loss, Self, Illness

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• I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Mother, Father, Home

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• What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Humanity, Passionate

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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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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• Health requires healthy food.

  Roger Williams

  Medicine, Medical, Healthy

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• He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Healthy, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Negative, Want, Purity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2788, Manonmani Publishers

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• Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Love Is, Sake

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• The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Long, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2549, Manonmani Publishers

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• We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Animal, Would Be

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.18, Advaita Ashrama

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• Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Men, Physicians

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

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• Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

  William Hazlitt

  Morning, Giving, Riding

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

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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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