Quotes About Health

You lied to the undertaker, and said your health was failing--a wholly commendable lie, since it cost you nothing and pleased the other man.

Why is there so much meaning when a mind breaks? Why isn't it all just static and nonsense?

But research shows that rumination does exactly the opposite: our ability to solve problems actually deteriorates markedly during rumination.

It's not the healthiest way to proceed. She merely replaced one dependency for another without confronting what lay at the heart of both.

Menschen sterben an gebrochenem Herzen. Sie bekommen Herzinfarkte. Und es ist das Herz, das am meisten wehtut, wenn etwas schief geht und auseinander fällt.

Jesus said that our faith is like a tiny seed planted inside us. He helps it grow just like the sun helps the plant grow, until it's strong and healthy and able to do good things.

Mucho es lo que cabe decir del miedo a la muerte. Nos mueve buscar seguridad, salud e incluso paz. Nos mueve a dar cobijo a las personas y seres a los que queremos, y a proteger instituciones y sistemas legales preciados para nosotros.

according to some medical psychologists, it's physiologically impossible for your mind to stay locked in a war of control when you're engaging its ability to generate compassion and appreciation.

to the extent that you're anxious about your weight and struggling against the desire to gorge on wickedly fattening food, you live on a battlefield.

Research has shown that focusing on appreciation and gratitude has all kinds of positive health effects, lowering indicators of disease-causing stress and increasing the flow of healthy hormones in our bloodstreams.

HERE'S HOW MY OXFORD DICTIONARY DEFINES IT: "The spasmodic utterance, facial distortion, shaking of the sides, etc., which form the instinctive impression of mirth." To me this sounds like the array of symptoms caused by a lethal virus, but it's actually a description of one of the best things life has to offer: laughter. With certain exceptions, the Joy Diet requires you to do it at least thirty times a day.

Pain is nature's way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we've got the message.

Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

Is it a war we are fighting, a war against health, against life and love? My condition is a torn condition. Every day, the dispensing of existence. I see the face of suffering. Its face is fierce and distant and ancient. There's probably a straightforward explanation for the impossible weariness I feel. A perfectly straightforward explanation. It is a mortal weariness. Maybe I'm tired of being human, if human is what I am. I'm tired of being human.

I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto.

On STDs] This be Nature's way of recommending monogamy.

He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three.

La suciedad y la inmoralidad andan juntas. La mugre engendra enfermedad.

Siempre pensé que en tiempo de paz la profesión del soldado era pasar las enfermedades venéreas.

toda a tendência da civilização" ia na direção "da multiplicação das funções coletivas da sociedade". O Estado devia desempenhar um papel cada vez mais relevante e, por exemplo, "preocupar-se cada vez mais intensamente com o cuidado dos doentes e idosos e, acima de tudo, das crianças".

While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.

As if the weight of such a commitment to life and health of America were not enough, another burden of responsibility was placed upon me in 1964; and I cannot forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was also a commission, a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man. This is a calling that takes me beyond national allegiances.

I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.