Explore Quotes on Health

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

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

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.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

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.

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.