Health Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

  Rumi

  Saint, Jars, Awareness

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.62, Lulu.com

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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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• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Everyday, World, Dimensions

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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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• One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

  Rene Dubos

  Aberration, May, Becoming

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.

  Karl Evang

  Numbers, Giving, Yardsticks

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• To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.

  Karl Evang

  Country, Care, West

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Attitude, Healthy, World

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York.

  Kinky Friedman

  New York, Shade, Likes

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Psychological, Wells

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Yellow, Blood

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Weakness, Organs

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• Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Spiritual, Fall, Passion

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