Quotes on Health

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

I hope I've contributed something to the mental health field. But I hope people will think - I've had so many wonderful opportunities, I tried to take advantage of them.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

I want to be around to see my son grow up and to enjoy my grandkids, which means I need to make my health a priority.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we've done a good job regarding physical activity and diet, but sleep has remained out there in the cold, and that's surprising to me.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

You're not free if you can't start a small business because you fear losing your health care, and you're certainly not free if a male boss or politician prevents you from making decisions about your own reproductive health.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.