Health Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Passion, Home, Sick

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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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• Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Use, Illness

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Doctors, Doors

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• Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Eye, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.

  Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

  Machines, Body, Definitions

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• What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

  Thales

  Men, Mind, Body

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Garden, Body

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [323]

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• Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Nature, Men

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fitness, Food, Exercise

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• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Morning, Up Early

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• It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

  E. Cheraskin

  Medicine, People, Germs

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