Quotes About Health

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.

Think of your own body, and see that it is strong and healthy; it is the best instrument you have. Think of it as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you will cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. (I. 146) A

first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.

Think of your own body, and see that it is strong and healthy; it is the best instrument you have. Think of it as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you will cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. (I. 146)

Body is the name of a series of changes. "As in a river the masses of water are changing before you every moment, and new masses are coming, yet taking similar form, so is it with this body." Yet the body must be kept strong and healthy. It is the best instrument we have.

And here is the test of truth: Anything that makes you weak physically, intelectually, and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.

The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]

In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely.

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

He had not been much of a poet, but poet enough for his love-sonnets and satires to weaken his lungs.