Health Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Long, Wealth, Illusion

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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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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• The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Style, Female, Requirements

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• Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

  Joseph Addison

  Exercise, Substitutes, Temperance

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• Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doctors, Religion, Heal

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost
  well.

  Louise Bogan

  Tired, Heart, Half

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Men, Sickness, Illness

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• I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Blessed, Men

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• We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Moving, Aristocracy, Care

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• Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Needs, Path

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.35, Hay House, Inc

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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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• Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Perfect, Perfect Beauty

  Essays on Men and Manners 'On Taste'

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• When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.

  Art Buchwald

  Two, Would Be, Three

  "The Man Who Would Not Die". "Having a High Time Where You'd Least Expect It" by Art Buchwald, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2006.

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• Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

  Sigmund Freud

  Two, Imagination, Ability To Love

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• When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

  Jack Layton

  Sick, Cards, Credit

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

  Sidney Jourard

  Loss, Self, Illness

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.

  John O'Hara

  Hot, Firearms

  John O'Hara (1977). “"An artist is his own fault": John O'Hara on writers and writing”, Southern Illinois University

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