Quotes about Health
Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
- Johannes Tauler
The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.
- John Bunyan
Always keep in mind what I seek to find in her, for I am none of those insane lovers who embrace also the vices of those with whom they are in love, where they are smitten at first sight with a fine figure. This only is the beauty that allures me: if she is chaste, if not too fussy or fastidious, if economical, if patient, if there is hope that she will be interested about my health.
- John Calvin
Our heavenly doctor, having purposed to restore all of us to health, treats some more leniently. Meanwhile, He applies stronger remedies to others. But none of us is left untouched by or remains immune to His medicine — He knows we are all diseased.
- John Calvin
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
- Henry David Thoreau
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
- Bill Gates
Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
- Hippocrates