Health Quotes (4)
Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering.
– Francois Rabelais
When we are well, we all have excellent advice for those who are ill.
– Terrence, 166 BC
A cough is something you yourself can’t help, but everyone else does on purpose just to
torment you.
– Ogden Nash, 1957
To keep the body in excellent health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind
strong and clear.
- Gautama the Buddha, 563 BC
Life is not merely being alive, but being well.
– Martial, Epigrams
The distress about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so hard to
do without destroying the health of the mind.
– G. K. Chesterton, Come to Reckon of It
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
– Plato
The more serious the illness, the more vital it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all
your resources – spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical.
– Normin Cousins
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
– Henri Amiel, 1877
Rest, as soon as there is pain, is a fantastic restorative in all disturbances of the body.
– Hippocrates, 400 BC
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
– Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962
A cheerful face is nearly as excellent for an invalid as healthy weather.
– Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
Pleasant words are a honecomb sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
– Proverbs 16:24
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
– Seneca
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
– Sivananda
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
– M. Kathleen Casey
The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
– Michel De Montaigne
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
– Marcel Proust
A cheerful heart is excellent medicine.
– Bible, Proverbs 17:22
To do nothing is sometimes a excellent remedy.
– Hippocrates, 400 BC
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
– Publius Syrus, 50 BC
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take
away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
– Elbert Hubbard
Originally posted 2009-09-15 03:33:57.
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