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Quotations by Subject: Health
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As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.: Cher (1946 - )
Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Be not slow to visit the sick.: Ecclesiastes
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.: Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.: George Dennison Prentice
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.: Hannah Green
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 (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen in Health
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 (1593 - 1683)
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.: Jackie Mason (1934 - )
If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 08-21-06
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.: Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2004
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.: Quentin Crisp
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.: Rabbi Harold Kushner
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.: Redd Foxx (1922 - 1991)
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.: Robert Orben
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.: Robin Norwood
A Hospital is no place to be sick.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.: Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
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, on his weight loss

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