People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Laurence Sterne

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Laurence Sterne
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. – Laurence Sterne
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a mans stature as to his happiness. – Laurence Sterne
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979