Health
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Bacon, Francis
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
- Billings, Josh
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha
Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.
- Eddy, Mary Baker
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable...Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
- Gita, Bhagavad
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
- Hippocrates
Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.
- Kabbalah
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
- Pike, Albert
Health consists with temperance alone.
- Pope, Alexander
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- Prentice, George D.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
- Rabelais
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
- Seneca
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
- Sigourney, Lydia
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- Sivananda
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
- Syrus, Publilius
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
- Temple, William
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
- Terence
