Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. – Terri Guillemets
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. – Cicero
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
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. – Charles Simmons
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. – Albert Schweitzer
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. – Gwendolyn Brooks
What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. – Thales of Miletus, translated from Greek
[I]t seems as if pain were the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood. – Moritz Heinrich Romberg, A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, 1840, translat
The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality. – DrRon Spallone, denverchiropractor.com
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. – Chinese Proverb
Health is not valued until sickness comes. – Thomas Fuller
Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. – Josh Billings
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 of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. – John Henry Cardinal Newman
With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought. – Ernest Holmes, “Health Is Normal”
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, The Anatomy of Melancholy
