Quotes About Health

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.

When Mrs. Sardotopolis got home there would be eight other children to take care of. But that was a simple matter. None of them was sick. When the eight children weren't sick they tumbled, shrieked and squealed in the dark hallway or in the street. Anywhere. Mrs. Sardotopolis only listened with half an ear. As long as they made noise they were healthy. So from day to day she listened not for their noise but to hear if any of them grew quiet.

familiar with the "fine print" one received from financial institutions and health-insurance companies; the last thing one was supposed to do with those thousands of words was comprehend them.

Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live forever and people would crumble and die around him. You were supposed to feel like death after seeing him, in terms of your complexion, your posture, your whole body. If necessary, this doctor would eat you to survive.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it's moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

almost eighty years old but still sharp and active

If banks won't borrow because they fear that doing so might send a bad signal about their financial health, then having a lender of last resort does little good.

He looked thin—after several heart surgeries,

it seemed to me that the health of the U.S. economy was linked to what happened in Europe.

They even come equipped with a built-in antibiotic called squalamine that helps them resist infections.

My patients are people who live on the edge of survival and beyond," he writes in his excellent book Surviving the Extremes.

Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.

Most importantly, studies have shown that easy access to green space significantly improves mental and physical health. It reduces stress to boot and improves cognitive development in children.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

And yet the glow, that inward glow, that was a thing he did not wish to live without, whatever the state of his liver or his brain.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.