Health Quotes

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
     - Abraham Maslow -

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
     - Adelle Davis -

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
     - Albert Schweitzer -

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
     - Albert Schweitzer -

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
     - Audrey Hepburn -

Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. 
     - Author Unknown -

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

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. 
     - Author Unknown -

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.  When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. 
     - B.K.S. Iyengar -

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
     - Barack Obama -

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
     - George Dennison Prentice -

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. 
     - George Jean Nathan -

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
     - Hannah Green -

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
     - Henry David Thoreau -

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
     - Henri Frederic Amiel -

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. 
     - Henri Frederic Amiel -

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth.  Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. 
     - Henry Lytton Bulwer -

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. 
     - Henry Ward Beecher -

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
     - Hippocrates -

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. 
     - Irish Proverb -

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
     - Izaak Walton -

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
     - Jackie Mason -

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. 
     - Robert Burton -

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. 
     - Robert Ingersoll -

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
     - Robert Orben -

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
     - Robin Norwood -

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. 
     - Samuel Butler -

A Hospital is no place to be sick.
     - Samuel Goldwyn -

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
     - Scott Westerfeld -

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
     - Seneca -

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.
     - Seth Rogen -

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
     - Spanish Proverb -

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.
     - Stephanie Klein -

I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.
     - Stephanie Klein -

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