Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.
Hippocrates - Keyword(s): Food

Show me a Nation with a science-hostile government, and I'll show you a society with failing health, wealth, & security.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Keyword(s): Science , Government , Society

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles - Keyword(s): Dieting , People

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it.... There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon - Keyword(s):

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin - Keyword(s): Fasting , Life

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha - Keyword(s): , Life , Fire , Men

A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
Francis Bacon - Keyword(s):

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
Galen - Keyword(s):

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain - Keyword(s):

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
Mark Twain - Keyword(s):

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Marcus Valerius Martial - Keyword(s): , Life

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis - Keyword(s): Happiness

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein - Keyword(s): , Life , Food , Vegetarianism

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.
Dutch Proverb - Keyword(s):

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Lafayette Black - Keyword(s): Age , Tennis

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Thomas Dekker - Keyword(s):

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Thomas Tusser - Keyword(s): Fasting

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Keyword(s):

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
Benjamin Franklin - Keyword(s): Fasting

He who can believe himself well, will be well.
Ovid - Keyword(s):

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Keyword(s):

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s):

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
Danish Proverb - Keyword(s):

It is part of the cure to want to be cured.
Seneca - Keyword(s):

Our illness is often our healing.
Mooji - Keyword(s):

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
B.K.S. Iyengar - Keyword(s): Science , Humankind , Yoga

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. Jerome - Keyword(s):

When the head aches, all the body is the worse.
English Proverb - Keyword(s):

The cause is within us. The cure is within us.
Rebecca Beard - Keyword(s):

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.
Jules Romains - Keyword(s):

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
Charles Lamb - Keyword(s):

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Keyword(s):

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own Affairs than we.
Michel de Montaigne - Keyword(s): , Nature

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato - Keyword(s):

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy - Keyword(s): , Body , Intellectual

Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
Mark Hyman - Keyword(s): Food

Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it.
Benjamin Franklin - Keyword(s):

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi - Keyword(s): , Jewelry

Good food is wise medicine.
Alison Levitt - Keyword(s): Food

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.
Geeta Iyengar - Keyword(s): Body , Art , Yoga

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
George Herbert - Keyword(s): Food

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson - Keyword(s): Food , Vegetarianism

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.
Alison Rose Levy - Keyword(s):

Health is not valued until sickness comes.
Thomas Fuller - Keyword(s):

Illness tells us what we are.
Italian Saying - Keyword(s):

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
Chinese Proverb - Keyword(s):

There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus - Keyword(s):

The greatest wealth is health.
Virgil - Keyword(s):

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s): Birds

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
George Bernard Shaw - Keyword(s): Food

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.
Rumi - Keyword(s): Fasting

Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
Bernie Siegel - Keyword(s): , Threat

A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends.
Kin Hubbard - Keyword(s):

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - Keyword(s): Happiness , Misery

Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Josh Billings - Keyword(s):

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
Henry Lytton Bulwer - Keyword(s): Dental , Sacrifice , Evil

The physician who teaches people to sustain their health is the superior physician. The physician who waits to treat people until after their health is lost is considered to be inferior. This is like waiting until one's family is starving to begin to plant seeds in the garden.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Dieting , Exercise

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Cicero - Keyword(s): , Body , Soul

Sport is a preserver of health.
Hippocrates - Keyword(s): , Sports

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
Lee Iacocca - Keyword(s): Food

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
Irish Proverb - Keyword(s): , Laughter , Sleep

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust - Keyword(s): , Promises

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
Tommy Smothers - Keyword(s): Food

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.
Yiddish Proverb - Keyword(s):

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
Plato - Keyword(s):

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
Christiaan Barnard - Keyword(s): , Life

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert Hubbard - Keyword(s): Happiness

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck - Keyword(s):

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Driving , Motorcycles

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley White - Keyword(s): Psychology , Walking , Adult

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
Moliere - Keyword(s):

One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - Keyword(s): , Misery

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings - Keyword(s):

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill - Keyword(s): Adversity , Body , Attention

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep - Keyword(s): Food

What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul. Develop your spirit that it may gain strength to control the body and follow the natural laws of nutrition and hygiene.
Kemetic Wisdom - Keyword(s):

I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
Bernie Siegel - Keyword(s):

He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well.
English Proverb - Keyword(s): Fasting , Food

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s):

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
Charles Dickens - Keyword(s):

Everyone should be his own physician. We ought to assist and not force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can produce digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable ills? Patience.
Voltaire - Keyword(s):

My excess fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb to my body.
Carrie Latet - Keyword(s):

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.
Joel Fuhrman - Keyword(s): Dieting , Fasting

Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

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.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
Charles Dickens - Keyword(s):

Health... is not so much a state, but a force: the power to resist and overcome threats to one's well-being.
Gregory P. Fields - Keyword(s): , Threat

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s):

Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
Carl Jung - Keyword(s):

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - Keyword(s):

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.
Paracelsus - Keyword(s): Fasting

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert Green Ingersoll - Keyword(s):

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Aldous Huxley - Keyword(s):

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
Robert Hutchison - Keyword(s):

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
Denis Diderot - Keyword(s):

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.
Rudolph Ballentine - Keyword(s):

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough.
Amy Weintraub - Keyword(s): Psychology , Yoga

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.
John McAfee - Keyword(s): , Yoga

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Laurence Sterne - Keyword(s):

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Henry Ward Beecher - Keyword(s): , Light

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
John Locke - Keyword(s):

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison - Keyword(s):

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
Malcolm Potts - Keyword(s): Birth Control , Humankind , Society

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.
Catalan Proverb - Keyword(s):

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.
Joseph Addison - Keyword(s):

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
Vernon Howard - Keyword(s):

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Keyword(s):

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Keyword(s): Basketball , Yoga

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Keyword(s):

The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.
Thomas Edison - Keyword(s):

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Hippocrates - Keyword(s):

I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital.
Astrid Alauda - Keyword(s):

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
Mignon McLaughlin - Keyword(s):

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice - Keyword(s):

If one's bowels move, one is happy; and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
Lin Yutang - Keyword(s):

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong-inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.
Thich Nhat Hanh - Keyword(s):

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
Ezra Taft Benson - Keyword(s): Fasting

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
G.K. Chesterton - Keyword(s):

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
Chinese Proverb - Keyword(s):

Every man's disease is his personal property.
Alonzo Clark - Keyword(s):

I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.
Sam Keen - Keyword(s):

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
Leonard Nimoy - Keyword(s): Ideas

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
Moliere - Keyword(s):

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabic Proverb - Keyword(s):

Personal healing on all levels-physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual-comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.
Shakti Gawain - Keyword(s):

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Samuel Butler - Keyword(s):

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Leon Eldred - Keyword(s):

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
Henri-Frederic Amiel - Keyword(s):

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
Charles Simmons - Keyword(s):

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
William Saroyan - Keyword(s):

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Keyword(s):

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney J. Harris - Keyword(s):

Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified.
Athenaeus of Naucratis - Keyword(s): Fasting

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
WHO - Keyword(s):

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
Larry Dossey - Keyword(s):

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas - Keyword(s):

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.
Herbert M. Shelton - Keyword(s):

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.
Hazrat Khan - Keyword(s):

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
Logan Clendening - Keyword(s):

The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves.
Lewis Thomas - Keyword(s):

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer - Keyword(s):

The time indeed is at hand when systematic lectures on food will be part of medical education, when the value of feeding in disease is admitted to be as important as the administration of medicines.
John Milner Fothergill - Keyword(s): Food

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
Chi Chi Rodriguez - Keyword(s):

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Cicero - Keyword(s):

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
B.K.S. Iyengar - Keyword(s):

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
Leo Tolstoy - Keyword(s):

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.
James H. West - Keyword(s):

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe - Keyword(s):

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Keyword(s):

Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Healthy is not something that you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.
Dean Ornish - Keyword(s):

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
Lord Chesterfield - Keyword(s):

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
John Redman Coxe - Keyword(s):

The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
Robert Benchley - Keyword(s):

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines.
Thomas More - Keyword(s):

Although they can be very healthy I believe the current focus on gluten free lifestyles is a little misplaced. I see an awful lot of people that would benefit much more from a glutton free lifestyle.
Tim Irwin - Keyword(s):

Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran - Keyword(s):

A single, dancing thread ties the people of the world together in a cohesive fabric. This is our humanness and mortality. We are all born with a similar challenge, borne from the blessing of ownership of this complex physical body.... With this ownership... comes the sometimes immense responsibility of health maintenance.
Garri Garripoli - Keyword(s):

After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health.
James Howell - Keyword(s):

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.
Marilyn Ferguson - Keyword(s):

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - Keyword(s):

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.
John Armstrong - Keyword(s):

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.
John Diamond - Keyword(s):

To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present-an imbalance existing somewhere-has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms.
Deepak Chopra - Keyword(s):

Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself in the form of disease.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - Keyword(s):

Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb-it is bound to explode.
Swami Sivananda Radha - Keyword(s):

It seems as if pain were the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood.
Moritz Heinrich Romberg - Keyword(s):

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.
Ernest Holmes - Keyword(s):

I have come to understand that some of the deepest and most effective healing is not found at a doctor's office or a hospital, but rather from inside ourselves. Our bodies are designed for self-healing, and we are capable of both boosting and blocking that ability.
Dr. Daju Suzanne Friedman - Keyword(s):

To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
Stephen Levine - Keyword(s):

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning.
John Barrymore - Keyword(s): Food

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
Albert Schweitzer - Keyword(s):

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!
Philip Dormer Stanhope - Keyword(s): Blessings

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
Nikolai Lenin - Keyword(s):

Did God who gave us flowers and trees, also provide the allergies?
Yip Harburg - Keyword(s):

You can learn to follow the inner self, the inner physician that tells you where to go. Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.
O. Carl Simonton - Keyword(s):

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
Norman Cousins - Keyword(s):

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
A.J. Reb Materi - Keyword(s):

People with diseases like AIDS and cancer feel an urgency in straightening out their lives, examining their purpose, and confronting the reality of death. Ironically, in spite of the physical and emotional pain they experience, many of these patients express gratitude for this opportunity. The encounter with their own mortality changes their priorities in life, their values and aspirations.
Jeff Seibert - Keyword(s):

It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness.
DeForest Clinton Jarvis - Keyword(s):

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity-the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom-and reconnects with that world of Spirit.
Malidoma Patrice Some - Keyword(s):

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
Susan Sontag - Keyword(s):

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud - Keyword(s):

A great many sick persons are allowed to drift into a critical condition when ill-from which many never rally, because they are not fed-not furnished with such nutritive material as their enfeebled powers can digest.
King Chambers - Keyword(s):

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason - Keyword(s):

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.
Thales of Miletus - Keyword(s):

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease.
Edward Jenner - Keyword(s):

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.
Quentin Regestein - Keyword(s):

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
George Jean Nathan - Keyword(s):

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I - Keyword(s):

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
Gwendolyn Brooks - Keyword(s):

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
John Henry Cardinal Newman - Keyword(s):

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
Robert Burton - Keyword(s):

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix nature - the most healing power of nature - are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
Rene Dubos - Keyword(s):

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Boris Pasternak - Keyword(s):

The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality.
Dr Ron Spallone - Keyword(s):

The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.
Kurdish Saying - Keyword(s):

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.
Chu Hui Weng - Keyword(s):

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx - Keyword(s):

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.
E.R. Squibb - Keyword(s):

Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.
Barbara Brennan - Keyword(s):