Quotes About Health

Their daughter came in in full evening dress, her fresh young flesh exposed (making a show of that very flesh which in his own case caused so much suffering), strong, healthy, evidently in love, and impatient with illness, suffering, and death, because they interfered with her happiness. Fyodor

One can't cure anything. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine—not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs.

Life meanwhile—real life, with its essential interests of health and sickness, toil and rest, and its intellectual interests in thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, and passions—went on as usual, independently of and apart from political friendship or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte and from all the schemes of reconstruction.

He prescribed more physical exercise as far as possible, and as far as possible less mental strain, and above all no worry—in other words, just what was as much out of Alexey Alexandrovitch's power as abstaining from breathing.

The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises and by taking good care of his body he had brought himself to such a state of physical fitness that in spite of the excesses he indulged in when enjoying himself, he looked as fresh as a big shiny green Dutch cucumber.

This prince enjoyed exceptionally good health, even for a prince ; and, owing to his gymnastic exercises and the scrupulous care he took of himself, notwithstanding the excesses to which he let his love for pleasure carry him, he remained as fresh as a great, green, shiny Dutch cucumber.

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

As a sedative it will also have a calming effect on those having trouble sleeping. Frankincense also boosts the immune system, so regardless of what else it might be used for, as a simple dietary supplement it will help keep you healthy and prevent the onset of sickness.

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

Il fatto è che i cretini, e ancor più i fanatici, son tanti; godono di una così buona salute non mentale che permette loro di passare da un fanatismo all'altro con perfetta coerenza, sostanzialmente restando immobili nell'eterno fascismo italico.

Le malattie delle persone intelligenti per tre quarti provengono dalla loro intelligenza.

He did not dissociate his thought from himself; he thought integrally, with the whole of his body; and each logical deduction forthwith became real to him—as happens only with very healthy or direct persons who have not yet turned thought into a pastime.

The duchess approached her health, her style, and her entire presentation with all that she had learned at the far more exotic Vatican court, and the practices of her father's homeland.

The number-one killer in this country is heart disease. And the majority of people suffer their first major heart attack on Monday morning between eight and nine. That is the time, of course, when most people are getting ready to go to jobs that they don't like, jobs that are making them sick.

Growing up without a grandmother is not healthy for children. That's what all the research shows. Not that long ago, societies were structured so that grandmothers lived nearby, if not in the same house. It was the natural order, the way humanity evolved.

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.

They say weight training is good for you and helps you be healthier. Not hard to do, given the older I get, the more years I carry.

The concentrated fructose that is found in high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) can significantly raise AGEs to unhealthy levels more quickly than you might imagine. Reducing the amount of HFCS-containing foods and beverages

the fatty tissue is suffering from oxidative stress and is secreting many more pro-inflammatory substances and less anti-inflammatory ones.

It is impossible to be spiritually mature when we are emotionally unhealthy.

If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

I woke up one morning, and I couldn't move my arm. It was the oddest thing, the paralysis. I called up a friend and said, "I think I've had a stroke," and, in fact, that's what my doctor told me. It wasn't terrible, but it was enough to scare me. Now I think about death all the time. I have my death arm, my right arm.

According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.