Quotes about health

"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."

Adams, Franklin P. on health
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"The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually."

Anderson, Greg on health   

"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."

Baker, Richard on health
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"The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul."

Barrett, Rona on health   

"As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work."

Baudelaire, Charles on health
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"From labor health, from health contentment springs."

Beattie, Melody on health   

"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."

Beecher, Henry Ward on health   

"There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it."

Billings, Josh on health   

"If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100]"

Blake, Eubie on health
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"Energy is eternal delight."

Blake, William on health   

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"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."

Bowen, Francis on health   

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

Buddha on health
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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on health   

"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"

Carlyle, Thomas on health
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"Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out."

Chekhov, Anton on health
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"Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well."

Clarke, James Freeman on health   

"Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied."

Colton, Charles Caleb on health   

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."

DeGeneres, Ellen on health   

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

Disraeli, Benjamin on health   

"You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well."

Dyer, Wayne on health
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"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on health
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"Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on health   

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."

Erving, Julius on health   

"I've never felt better."

Fairbanks, Douglas on health   

"Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell."

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield on health   

"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on health
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"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."

Franklin, Benjamin on health
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"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals."

Franklin, Benjamin on health   

"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on health
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"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."

Haldane, John B. S. on health   

"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on health   

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"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

Heave on health   

"As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions."

Hendricks, Gay on health   

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

Horace on health   

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."

Hunt, Leigh on health   

"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."

Ibsen, Henrik on health   

"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."

Jefferson, Thomas on health   

"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body."

Johnson, Harry J. on health   

"Health is my expected heaven."

Keats, John on health   

"The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is."

King, Florence on health