Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
Interpretation
Health benefits not only ourselves but also those around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote reflects on the idea that sickness is a burden that limits one's ability to help others, as it consumes one's energy and resources. In contrast, good health allows an individual to contribute positively to the community, enabling them to extend their capabilities and generosity beyond their own needs, thereby enriching the lives of others.
In practice
In a speech about community health initiatives, this quote could emphasize the importance of supporting healthy lifestyles.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.
I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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