Health Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.

  Jeff Koons

  Support Systems, People, Feel Good

  Jeff Koons, Eckhard Schneider, Rudolf Sagmeister (2001). “Jeff Koons”, Kunsthaus Bregenz

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• If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

  Cornelia Parker

  Suffering, Want, Psychological

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• We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

  Max Planck

  Struggle, Hard Work, Science

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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• It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

  William Osler

  Home, Men, Practice

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

  Bob Schwartz

  Exercise, Wellness, Problem

  Bob Schwartz (1982). “Diets Don't Work”

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• In the woods is perpetual youth.

  John Muir

  Nature, Woods, Youth

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• I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Work, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Southern, Germs

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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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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