Health Quotes - Page 37

• It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Power

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Sick, Fountain

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.3, Gibbs Smith

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• The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.26, Editora Dracaena

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• How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Happy, Powerful, Fear

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• This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Order, Choices

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• All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Age, Answers, Kind

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• An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

  Manly Hall

  Mind, Body, Healthy

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• The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Roots, Priorities

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• Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Principles, Sanitary

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• Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Law, Essence

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.324, Northwestern University Press

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• There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Happiness, Beauty, Beautiful

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• To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Doctors, Air

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

  John Donne

  Physicians, Neutrality, Enjoy

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.81

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• The richest of all lords is Use,
  And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse.
  Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
  Drink the wild air's salubrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunshine, Sea, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.243

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• Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws--hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit--is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Spiritual, Medicine, Law

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• A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.

  Barack Obama

  Quality, Needs, Incentives

  Barack Obama's remarks Marking the Fifth Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act at the South Court Auditorium in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 25, 2015.

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• The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Recovery, Class

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• We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Moving

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 28, 2015.

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• Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Quality, Heat

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

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• We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Senate, Millions

  "Ted Cruz going on Obamacare" By Dana Bash, MJ Lee, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.

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• All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Evil, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.56, Xist Publishing

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• The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perfect, Soul, Body

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• The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Passion, Men

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• And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jail, Agendas, Prison

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• If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I have heard what a big problem mental health is in New Hampshire? Would I have heard people say they're really worried about the impact on young people because New Hampshire has the highest tuition and debt problems in the country? i'm not sure I would have.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Book, Impact

  "Welcome to Hillary Clinton's classroom" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2015.

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