Quotes About Health

Diet is a four-letter word.

Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate?

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

Tea is a cup of life.

Most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior... Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. There is no mystery about disease, nor crime, nor war, nor the thousand and one things which plague us. Live simply and wisely.

It would fare but ill with many of us if we were left to superintend our own digestion and circulation. 'Bless me!' one would cry, 'I forgot to wind up my heart this morning! To think that it has been standing still for the last three hours!' 'I can't walk with you this afternoon,' a friend would say, 'as I have no less than eleven dinners to digest. I had to let them stand over from last week, being so busy, and my doctor says he will not answer for the consequences if I wait any longer!'

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Most of us have become deaf to our own bodies, which is why we are out of tune.

Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug! Use the body God gave you, don't let it rot.

And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.

Our biochemistry bolts and revolts at our modern life.

A corpulent man strolled in front of us, sweating and drinking soda from a straw. He was fat enough that each step cost him something.

Arteries are the body's thundering poetry.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?

Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one.

If your body's not right, the rest of you will go wrong. Take care of yourself.

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.

I hope very soon to be better, for I have removed my Family into the Country, to my old Habitation at Braintree, and have determined to shake off a little of that Load of public and private Care which has for some Time oppressed me. If I had not, I should soon have shaken off this mortal Body.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds; for it is the mind that makes the body: that is my secret, and the secret of all the true healers.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.

It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth.