Quotes on Health

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.