Quotes About Health

Nordau's theories gave a new twist to the question of how man's biological evolution and society's historical evolution intersected. A fourth and disturbing possibility now presented itself: even healthy human specimens living in advanced civilized society would, unless corrective steps were taken, degenerate into a lesser physical and moral type.

As David Hume explained, "The mind of man is subject to certain unaccountable terrors and apprehensions, proceeding from the unhappy situation of private or public affairs, from ill health, from a gloomy and melancholy disposition. In such a state of mind, where real objects of terror are wanting, the soul … finds imaginary ones, to whose power and malevolence it sets no limits.

Using one's eyes and ears and sense of touch to diagnose ailments and complaints, and judge the course of a disease or its cure, was in a sense a family tradition. According to the great Greek doctor Galen,‡ Asclepid families also taught their sons dissection.

Keeping feelings inside eventually will take its toll on one's health. Repression is a constant force that wears the system down, resulting in, possibly, a shorter life span.

Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.

Susan read her letter. 'Mother says I must give you plenty of lettuces and peas and things, or else you'll all get scurvy. What is scurvy?

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Mental tranquility and physical health are coveted, not the approbation of the Lord.

We all know the internal trials of the soul react upon the body, rending its nerves and affecting its strength—" A broken spirit drieth the bones" (Prov. 17: 22);

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'

El capitán, seguro de no resistir mucho rato frente a cinco hombres armados y diestros en el oficio, decidió no andarse con lindezas de esgrima, y en vez de curar su salud procuró desbaratar la de sus enemigos.

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The goal in life is to die young, as late as possible

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load.

Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirin.

We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.

The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant. The problem is that they have had almost no view at all. Medicine's focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet—and this is the painful paradox—we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Im so affected, that even my lungs are affected.