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- Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981), "The Human Comedy"
- All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
- Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
- What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
- Dio Lewis
- If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
- Author Unknown
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