Quotes on Health

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Health is the requisite after morality

In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.