About Health

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
Adelle Davis
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Be not slow to visit the sick.
Ecclesiastes
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
Hannah Green
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen in Health
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason (1934 - )
If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.
Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 08-21-06
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.
Jay Leno (1950 - )
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2004
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.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quentin Crisp
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx (1922 - 1991)
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
Robert Orben
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
Robin Norwood
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?
Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006