Archive for June 19th, 2011
Health Quotes To Ponder
I believe that walking with God and good health are the best gifts one can give to oneself. The following are some health quotes that should be pondered thoughtfully. Enjoy!
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948
The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
The… patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~Elbert Hubbard
The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe, 1800
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ~Irish Proverb
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. ~Alison Rose Levy, “An Ancient Cure for Modern Life,” Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no “I’ll start tomorrow.” Tomorrow is disease. ~Terri Guillemets
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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
The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality. ~Dr Ron Spallone, denverchiropractor.com
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. ~Leo Tolstoy
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. ~Thomas Dekker, Westward Ho, 1604
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West
It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep
I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke
To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere
Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music.
~A. Cornelius Celsus
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets
My fat scares me – it’s a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet
May God Richly Bless You With Health And Happiness!
