Health Quotes - Page 33

• Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sobriety, Capacity, Concern

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• As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, World, Body

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• Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.

  Michael Marmot

  Sex, Pain, Cancer

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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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• General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

  Michael Marmot

  Fall, Class, Improvement

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• The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Believe, Exercise

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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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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• Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.

  Oliver Sacks

  Feelings, Growth, Enhancement

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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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• Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.

  Robert Shapiro

  Country, Cost, Pay

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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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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Medicine, Defense

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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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• Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Uplifting, Healing

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.351, Library of Alexandria

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• Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you are with the nutrition of your body.

  Robert Muller

  Book, Healing, Mind

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• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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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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• Love has the power to...cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Love, Healing, Use

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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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• It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Fun, Moving

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• As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Discipline

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