Health Quotes - Page 34

• Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discipline, Giving

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• In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Athletic

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• It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Strong, Block

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• Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Work Out

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• Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Moving, Buddhism

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• Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Attitude, Character, Psychics

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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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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• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Exercise, Body, Spirit

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

  Peter Wolf

  Thinking, Doctors, Order

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• While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.

  Eric Maisel

  Ideas, Creative, Feelings

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.163, Penguin

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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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• Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Years, Disease, Panic

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

  Norman Doidge

  Reading, Games, Dancing

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• What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.

  Keith Olbermann

  Self, Availability, Government

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• At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed HIV. Three years later I decide to dedicate the remainder of my life to art. Leaving work and refusing the assistance of Unemployment Insurance or Welfare, I challenged myself to live completely through my art.

  Joe Average

  Art, Years, Leaving

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• My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

  Frederic Chopin

  Death, Sleep, Covered

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• The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.

  Frederic Chopin

  Death, Islands, Doctors

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• Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

  Frederic Chopin

  Death, Memories, Play

  "The opera reader". Book by Louis Leopold Biancolli (p. 271), 1953.

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• Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Air, Blood

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