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Quotes About Health

Her preferred form of exercise, she told Wendy, was stress. "Clench muscles, hold for twelve hours, release for a count of five, then clench again.
~ Amy Tan
Drink champagne! It's advertised in the Tribune as a "health" drink. Drink champagne while listening to Bach and Beethoven. It's a fine preventative.
~ Anais Nin
The mold we give to our lives is so that there will be no cataclysms. The order we seek we are willing to surrender to the flow of life at any time, but it is there as a brake on a car, and our health is a brake. We put brakes on, against our temperament. he said, "Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it.
~ Anais Nin
Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.
~ Anderson Cooper
Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself. Illness grabs the soul. You plunge in and out of hope, fearing you will never recover. All that I have been, all that I am, all that I might become no longer exist. I am alone. Nothing can distract from the truth of this finality. How
~ Anderson Cooper
How can my body betray me when there is so much still to be done? You see, it isn't age itself that betrays you; it is your body, and with its deterioration goes your power. You end up obsessed, entirely focused on your health, paying attention to every nuance, every ache and pain. Instead of working or living your life, you waste your time on appointments with doctors.
~ Anderson Cooper
Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself. Illness grabs the soul. You plunge in and out of hope, fearing you will never recover. All that I have been, all that I am, all that I might become no longer exist. I am alone. Nothing can distract from the truth of this finality.
~ Anderson Cooper
I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like security for making one fall asleep; I like life well enough to live it awake, and so, in the very midst of my riches, I maintain the sensation of a state of precariousness, by which means I aggravate, or at any rate intensify, my life. I will not say I like danger, but I like life to be hazardous, and I want it to demand at every moment the whole of my courage, my happiness, my health...
~ Andre Gide
Une autre chose que j'ignorais, plus importante encore peut-être, c'est que j'étais d'une santé très délicate.
~ Andre Gide
The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.
~ Andreas Moritz
Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.
~ Andreas Moritz
Instead, statins artificially lower the level of cholesterol in
~ Andreas Moritz
It has also been observed that an increase in the brightness of fluorescent light leads to higher stress levels by raising cortisol hormone levels.
~ Andreas Moritz
The thing to remember is that the skull is fixed in position, and, with the exception of the jaw, immovable, and that the flesh is mobile and ever-changing, and also affected by health, emotion, and age. After the skull is fully matured, it remains the same through life and is a structural foundation for the varying appearance of the flesh.
~ Andrew Loomis
I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost.
~ Andrew Loomis
Recent studies at the Public Health Institute in California confirm that hostility and resentment tear down your immune system and double your risk of heart attack, cancer and even diabetes. Bitterness makes you sick!
~ Andrew Matthews
A stroke. Robert has never been kind to his body . . . It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown. And Robert has cared for that mind like a tiger with her young: he has given up drinking and drugs, kept a strict schedule of sleep. He is good, he is careful. And to steal that--to steal his mind--burglar Life!Like cutting a Rembrandt from its frame.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.
~ Andrew Solomon
Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth.
~ Andrew Solomon
Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood.
~ Andrew Solomon
Mental illness is real illness
~ Andrew Solomon
Is it crazy to avoid the behaviours that make you crazy? Or is it crazy to medicate so that you can sustain a life that makes you crazy?
~ Andrew Solomon
As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. Chemistry
~ Andrew Solomon
You say that you really don't want to get sick again. But wellness is still, in this area, associated not with achieving control of your problem, but with discontinuation of medication: "Well, I sure hope you get off sometime soon," they say.
~ Andrew Solomon