Health Quotes - Page 7

• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Mind, Body

  Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III

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• May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

  Lord Chesterfield

  Blessing, Long, May

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.313

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• Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

  Joseph Addison

  Exercise, Science, Substitutes

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.64

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• Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Get Well, Yoga

  The Spectator Vol. V, No. 387 (1712)

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• What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Abundance Of Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

  Dean Ornish

  Change, Death, Heart

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• A Hospital is no place to be sick.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Witty, Sick, Hospitality

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

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• Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

  Susan Sontag

  Night, Sick, Kingdoms

  Illness as Metaphor preface (1978)

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• Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Philosophy, Stupid People

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• I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.

  Kris Carr

  Happiness, Being Happy, Thankful

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Dec 12, 2013

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• True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.

  Christiane Northrup

  Change, Strength, Happiness

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.38, Hay House, Inc

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• There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.

  Angeles Arrien

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sickness, Health Care

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.77, Verso

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• Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Malady, Severe

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• When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Doctors, Touching

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• There are some remedies worse than disease.

  Sara Shepard

  Disease, Remedy

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• Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Fitness, Work

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

  Alexander the Great

  Funny, Death, Dying

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

  Esther Williams

  Inspiration, Two, Different

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• Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, People, Political

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• Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

  William Shakespeare

  Son, Giving, Doe

  William Shakespeare (2008). “The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True”, p.154, OUP Oxford

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• Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

  Hippocrates

  Get Well, Healing, Opportunity

  'Precepts' ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)

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• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Sleep

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Mad, House, Care

  "De Re Rustica". Book by Marcus Terentius Varro, I, 2,

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