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Quotes About Health

I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.
~ Bob Marley
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
~ Charles Lamb
Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.
~ E. Cheraskin
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
~ Marilyn Monroe
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.
~ Morarji Desai
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.
~ Neal Stephenson
Well, once I had recovered from childbirth - then she caught herself short, and smiled. What a ridiculous expression; I see now that I shall be recovering until the day I die.
~ Neal Stephenson
His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities.
~ Neal Stephenson
If no one is barfing, then none of us is likely to die, at least over a time span of weeks.
~ Neal Stephenson
Here in the First World, everyone has already been vaccinated, and we don't let religious fanatics come up and poke needles into us. But we do take a lot of drugs.
~ Neal Stephenson
A WEEK LATER, WHEN THE LAST OF THE VICTIMS HAD SUCCUMBED to their wounds or to radiation sickness, eight humans remained alive and healthy.
~ Neal Stephenson
Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores
~ Neal Stephenson
Of course, happy is a concept for fat Americans. Immigrants don't seem to care about happy very much. Healthy, wealthy and wise, yes, but happiness alone is something their children worry about, maybe.
~ Neal Stephenson
Your brain has an immune system, just like your body. The more you use it—the more viruses you get exposed to—the better your immune system becomes.
~ Neal Stephenson
It was a great day and age to be a retired but still healthy mechanic with no family to distract him.
~ Neal Stephenson
That's what medicine was to kids: an acute response to disease. When you got older you understood it was more like brushing your teeth: a system of highly evolved strategies for preempting bad things that could happen to you if you took no preventive measures.
~ Neal Stephenson
Illness and disease are opposites of health and wellness, and are made manifest in your reality at your behest. You cannot be ill without at some level causing yourself to be, and you can be well again in a moment by simply deciding to be.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
In your society, you often do not see the contradictions of your own moral constructions. The contradiction between doing things that you know full well are going to shorten your life, but doing them slowly, and doing things that will shorten your life quickly is one of the most glaring in the human experience.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Kroppen din er en levende demostrasjon av den være-tilstanden sjelen din befinner seg i.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
~ Ned Vizzini
There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.
~ Ned Vizzini
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson