Quotes about Health

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

They are vast stretches of corn under troubles skies, and I did not need to go out of my way to try to express sadness and the extreme of loneliness...I almost think that these canvases will tell you what I cannot say in words, the health and fortifying power that I see in the country.

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.

the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.

True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die.

Our society arbitrarily defines health as the capacity for work and the capacity for enjoyment, but "true health is something quite different. True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die. Health is not a condition of my body; it is the power of my soul to cope with the varying condition of that body.

As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.