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Quotes About Health

There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan.
~ Daniel Marques
Joseph goes to the Social Service Department. Can I help you? the secretary inquires. Joseph answers: Yes, I am God. I've come to see about a release from the hospital.
~ Milton Rokeach
You're not fine. You could die if you keep this up." "Ah, the beautiful always die young.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
My real problem isn't in my throat or kidneys. The doctor should have operated on my heart instead.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Maybe there really was something wrong and I needed to have myself checked out. But I didn't know when I would have the time to fit it in.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.
~ Miriam Toews
Un fetus pot ajudar a guarir el cor malalt de la seva mare, o qualsevol altre òrgan, el mateix cervell, fent-hi arribar cèl·lules mare.
~ Miriam Toews
ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die. But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.
~ Mitch Albom
I envy them being able to go to the health club, or go for a swim. Or dance. Mostly for dancing. But envy comes to me, I feel it, and then I let it go. Remember what I said about detachment? Let it go. Tell yourself, 'That's envy, I'm going to separate from it now.' And walk away.
~ Mitch Albom
You said it so innocently, so matter-of-factly, that it robbed us of our breath. And while we recovered to offer the standard adult response, that love doesn't care about sickness or health, inside we were trembling, because we saw in you something, with your disease, that we were terrified of seeing in ourselves. Acceptance.
~ Mitch Albom
Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out.
~ Mitch Albom
What if you had one day perfectly healthy, I asked? What would you do? "Twenty-four hours?" Twenty-four hours.
~ Mitch Albom
as if sadness were as treatable as common cold
~ Mitch Albom
What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start to cry. It just feeds on itself.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, anywhere but here. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Mona Simpson
You look pale, Mini," said Baba, bringing the clubs down and rolling his shoulders. "You should take regular exercise. I will show you some basic movements. No better exercise in the world than Indian clubs. And naturally you can perform the routines outside. For myself I choose to be indoors, but it is a matter of personal preference. Begin with the feet in the ten-to-two position… if you can't manage then hip distance apart is acceptable…
~ Monica Ali
Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
~ Morgan Spurlock
The center [of the supermarket] is for boxed, frozen, processed, made-to-sit-on-your-shelf-for-months food. You have to ask yourself, If this food is designed to sit in a box for month and months, what is it doing inside my body? Nothing good, that´s for sure.
~ Morgan Spurlock
Don´t be fooled in the frozen-food section, either. I know a lot of people think that if they buy it at the store and heat it up at home, it´s 'homemade'. Think again. It´s the same processed crap, coming from the same scary meatpacking plants, injected with the same chemicals, supplied by the same wholesalers. Just because you heat it up at home doesn´t mean it´s any better for you.
~ Morgan Spurlock
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
~ Morgan Spurlock
You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
~ Muriel Spark
I don't feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.
~ Nadeem Aslam