Category: Health Quotes SMS

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.  ~Martin H. FischerFFM

When the head aches, all the body is the worse.  ~English ProverbDCMOO

Man is made of opinions,?of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him…. Man goes on developing error upon error till he is buried in his own belief…. It is the office of wisdom to explain the phenomena in man called disease, to show how it is made, […]

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 DickensCCDP

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.  ~Sydney J. HarrisCUL

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.  ~John Steinbeck

It’s no longer a question of staying healthy.  It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.  ~Jackie MasonETW

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.  ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.  ~Aldous HuxleyCUL

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891LCD

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.  ~Martin H. FischerFFM

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and […]

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.  ~Dutch ProverbDCMOO, sometimes attributed to William C. HazlittCOE

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.  ~Chu Hui WengDCMOO

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 JennerDCMOO

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.  ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860LCD

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 MortimerPCR

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.  ~Chinese ProverbCUL

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, The Scarlet Letter

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

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.  ~Author Unknown

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.  ~Arabic ProverbDCMOO; COE

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 BulwerDCMOO

Nature does require Her time of preservation, which perforce I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal Must give my attendance to. ~William ShakespeareCOE

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. Our nervous system isn’t just a […]

A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.  ~Francis BaconCOE

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.  ~Robert Hutchison, 1932DCMOO

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, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932

Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit. ~William Saroyan

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

The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality.  ~Dr Ron Spallone, denverchiropractor.com

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

Every man’s disease is his personal property.  ~Alonzo ClarkDCMOO

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. WestCOE

There are some remedies worse than the disease.  ~Publilius Syrus

It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.  ~Meryl Streep

The stars swirl downward from the blissful heavens, energy of the universe heals around me, exploding into life, drifting into calmness, and nothing else matters. ~Terri Guillemets

Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches.  ~Terri Guillemets

After I found that mind was matter, I found that ideas were matter condensed into a solid called disease, and that this, like a book, contained all the wisdom of its author. Seeing the book,?for sight with Wisdom embraces all the senses,?I open it, and see through it. To the patient it is a sealed […]

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, “Health Is Normal”

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.  ~CiceroDCMOO

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.  ~CiceroDCMOO

QUIMBY 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, March 1861

Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego…. ~Carl Jung

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.  ~World Health Organization, 1948

Mens sana in corpore sano.  (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.)  ~JuvenalDCMOO

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, The Way of All Flesh, 1903, ch. 80; CTO

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 […]

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. ~Author unknown, similar to statement in The […]

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, […]

Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor’s nose. ~Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCOE

The… insomniacpatient 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 Regesteinquoted in Get a Good Night’s Sleep by Katherine A. Albert

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 DiamondDCMOO

Be careful about reading health books.  You may die of a misprint.  ~Mark Twain

When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up. ~Terri Guillemets

Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.  ~Josh BillingsCOE

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead […]

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, 1800DCMOO

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.  ~Denis DiderotDCMOO

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

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, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979QSCI

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.  ~Author Unknown

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

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.  ~George William Curtis, Lotus-EatingDCMOO

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!  ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia

The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.  ~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.  ~Jean Baptiste Moli?re

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

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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 BillingsCUL

The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill. Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. ~Charles Churchill

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 SterneCOE

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

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

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician. ~Vernon Howard, 1967

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole. ~Plato

It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness.  ~DeForest Clinton JarvisDCMOO

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

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.  ~Logain Clendening

END QUIMBY Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. ~Stephen Levine

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.  ~Catalan ProverbDCMOO

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 […]

Red meat is not bad for you.  Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!  ~Tommy Smothers

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.  ~Terri Guillemets

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.  ~Lord ChesterfieldCOE

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ~Hippocrates

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.  ~Joseph AddisonDCMOO; COE