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- 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
- One can not think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf, 1929
- If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors. -- J. A. del Rosario and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills
- 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)
- Health is not simply the absence of sickness. -- Hannah Green
- 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
- Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680
- Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering. -- Francois Rabelais
- We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickenss is to remind us of these concerns. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- One can not think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf, 1929
- The first wealth is health. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The best six doctors anywhere,
And no one can deny it,
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air,
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend,
If only you are willing,
Your mind they'll ease,
Your will they'll mend,
And charge you not a shilling.
-- Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
- Medicine, being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time. -- Marcel Proust
- 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 past. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease. -- Volaire
- "I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still get your money." -- Moliere: "A Physician in Spite of Himself" 1664
- Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all. -- Voltaire
- "What ails the physician that he dies of the disease that he would have cured in time gone by? There died alike he who administered the drug and he who took it, and he who imported and sold the drug, and he who bought it." -- Verses upon the death in Baghdad of the physician Yuhanna ibn Masawayh in the year 857
- A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -- John Steinbeck
- 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 past. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 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
- There are some remedies worse than the disease. -- Publilius Syrus
- Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. -- Dorthy Canfield Fisher
- Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. -- Matthew Prior
- To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. -- La Rochefoucauld
- The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself. -- John Knowles
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