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Quotes About Health

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.
~ Ivan Illich
Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.
~ Prentice Mulford
We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.
~ Paul Farmer
If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be.
~ Émile Coué
I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise
~ Kelly Hoppen
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.
~ William Harvey
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
~ Harold S. Kushner
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
~ K. D. Lang
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
~ Linus Pauling
But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~ Gautama Buddha
Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.
~ John F. Demartini
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world
~ Bill Gates
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
~ Mark Hyman
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
~ Studs Terkel
Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.
~ Kelly McGonigal
Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.
~ Hans Rosling
Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.
~ David Gilmour
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
~ C. Everett Koop
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind
~ Byron Katie
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.
~ Kate Middleton