Health Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.

  Norman Cousins

  Strong, Laughter, Responsibility

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• It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

  Lewis Thomas

  Pieces, Flapping, Distortion

  Lewis Thomas (1972*). “Aspects of Biomedical Science Policy”, p.3, National Academies

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• I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Yuppies, Smoking

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• Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

  Jean Houston

  Eye, Reality, Doors

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• The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.

  Florence King

  Real, Long Ago, Pills

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• Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Care, May, Serving God

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.3704, Catholic Way Publishing

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• And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

  Theodor Adorno

  Opposites, Sick, Normal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.60, Verso

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• Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Things In Life, People, Important

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• It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

  Rene Dubos

  Civilization, Facts, Disease

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• Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

  Hosea Ballou

  Nature, Medicine, Disease

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• Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

  Talcott Parsons

  Science, Support, Culture

  1951 The Social System, ch.8.

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• ...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

  Robert Kennedy

  Marriage, Country, Children

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• ... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

  Michael Marmot

  Childhood, Acting, Disease

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• For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Feelings, Complaining

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Want, Amusing, Courses

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• Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Physicians, Disease

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• The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

  Susan Sontag

  May, Imagine, Ideals

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• ... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Life Is Short, Class, Differences

  Richard G. Wilkinson, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (1986). “Class and health”

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• Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Eye, Rainbow

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• Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

  Emmet Fox

  Healing, Emotional, Movement

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• In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Moving, Healing, Energy Medicine

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• This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

  Franz Kafka

  Duty, Ifs, Oneself

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.

  Henry Twells

  Fall, Evening, Ancient

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