Health Quotes

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

We don't come here for our health.

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation.

Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit.

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

The magazine at the health food store said, Stop Aging! Isn't that what death is for? Trust me, we're all gonna stop aging.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA.

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.

Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.

Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.