Quotes About Health

When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.

kissing is good for the skin.

With any luck, I'd go instantly—with my new health insurance, I couldn't afford a slow decline.

In general, women who were able to sew or to quilt were able to earn extra bread rations, so coveted were even the slightest improvements to the standard uniform: the ability to distinguish oneself, to look slightly better than others, would become, as we shall see, associated with higher rank, better health, greater privilege.

the youngsters to get some fresh air and run off some of

There is sickness here," Henry said. "The bodywalker must tend to Boo Bear." The

You sure you feel all right to do this today?" He opened her carry bag, took out a couple of containers of food, and put them in the under-the-counter fridge. "I'll be fine," Meg replied, sounding testy. If she would let him sniff her properly, he'd know if she was all right without having to keep asking.

And it is this search for meaning that keeps us from living in fear. The key to a healthy life is not to be alone, to breathe the same air with others, to share the sensation of living through moments together.

In youth, skin cells are replaced every two weeks but, as we age, the cycle slows down. The cells on the surface of the skin remain there longer and begin to look dull and tired. Natural oil production decelerates and collagen and elastin, which give the skin elasticity, break down, especially after menopause. Pockets of fat beneath the skin's surface become thinner. The overall effect is a face that is wrinkled, sagging, and boney.

Depression is one of the unknown modes of being. There are no words for a world without a self, seen with impersonal clarity. All language can register is the slow return to oblivion we call health when imagination automatically recolors the landscape and habit blurs perception and language takes up its routine flourishes.

Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.

he can't reveal he has AIDS in his village, or he would be ostracized and lose his job as a mechanic.

Too often, women are loath to demand their partners wear condoms for fear it will be a turnoff.

I am afraid of being infected," they tell him, "but I am even more afraid of being left alone.

it is not enough to cure the sick; you have to cure them with methods accepted by the community."18

the family doctor was summoned, and pronounced me stricken with fever.

Even after they were told they had received the placebo version of the surgery, they continued to walk better, declared they slept more soundly, reported they were able to mow the lawn again, and more.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Harper, treat your words with care For they may cause joy or despair Sing your songs of health and love Of dragons flaming from above

You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine has clearly never tasted scotch.