Health

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891

After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. – James Howell

Sugar is a type of bodily fuel, yes, but your body runs about as well on it as a car would. – Terri Guillemets

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seemed to me to be the only rational position to take on life. – John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too, 1998

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

Happiness lies, first of all, in health. – George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating

Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it. – Ann Wigmore

Wellbeing starves addiction. – Terri Guillemets, “Better,” 2007

To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. – William Londen

[L]ongevity in itself is not a basis for evolutionary selection — natural selection is not interested in us after we have finished child-bearing. – Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman, Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms th

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose

When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up. – Terri Guillemets

A great many sick persons are allowed to drift into a critical condition when illâ€”from which many never rally, because they are not fedâ€”not furnished with such nutritive material as their enfeebled powers can digest. – King Chambers, quoted by John Milner Fothergill in A Manual of Dietetics, 1886

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. – Logan Clendening

Health is a relationship between you and your body. – Terri Guillemets

The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves. – Lewis Thomas

Being healthy is a revolutionary act. – Author Unknown

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