Health Quotes - Page 31

• I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

  Stephanie Klein

  Knowing, Live In The Moment, Meals

  Stephanie Klein (2009). “Moose: A Memoir”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

  Stephanie Klein

  Pain, Kids, Cutting

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• Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.

  Jeanette Jenkins

  Motivational, Fitness, Cells

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2013

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• Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Believe, Journey

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014

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• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

  Plato

  Mistake, Two, Soul

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• Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Civilization, Play

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Purposive" Social Formations (ch. 8, page 84), 1952.

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• The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Medical Knowledge, Doctors

  Journal Intime 22 August (1873)

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• It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Medicine, Understanding, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.424

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• One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Healing, Unique

  Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Deepak Chopra (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being”, p.16, Harmony

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• There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

  Wayne Dyer

  Stress, Healing, Law Of Attraction

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• Beliefs and thoughts alter cells in your body.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Healing, Law Of Attraction, Cells

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• We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Hate, Healing, Law Of Attraction

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• Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

  Mark Sisson

  Giving Up, Inspire, Way

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• Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

  Seth Godin

  Stress, Inspire, Debt

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• Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Inspire, Admitting, Knows

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.47, Yearling

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• Everything that is popular is wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspire

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• As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

  Richard Branson

  Inspire, Risk, Trying

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• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

  Jules Laforgue

  Noses, Cigarette, Slender

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• State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. ... Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to Congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation.

  John Marshall

  Law, Quarantine, Granted

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'

  Michael Moriarty

  Law, United States, Taxation Without Representation

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• Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

  Pierre Bosquet

  Doctors, Medicine, Long

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• The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

  Ivan Illich

  Medicine, Medical, Establishment

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• The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Doctors, Oil

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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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