Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
Leonardo da VinciNot many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher HitchensIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HippocratesNo body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Francis BaconMy rule is to break one sweat a day.
Matthew McConaugheyMusic keeps the heart porous in many ways.
BonoWhen your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.
Sunil ChhetriI sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.
Kurt CobainTo lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin FranklinWalking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas JeffersonStatistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard ShawMaybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
Stephen HawkingIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar WildeAs we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
Russell M. NelsonGod has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Joel OsteenI know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.
Terry PratchettI never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
Karl LagerfeldHealth consists with temperance alone.
Alexander PopeWater, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark TwainAt the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
Dalai LamaEvery action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.
Tom BradyI’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.
Bob DylanCheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph AddisonIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Jesus ChristWhen we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.
Mark TwainIt occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.
Charles BukowskiOur growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F. KennedyI was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody AllenI think sometimes the best training is to rest.
Cristiano RonaldoMy son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!
Henny YoungmanI believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
Joyce MeyerI believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Neil ArmstrongSome are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David ThoreauBusiness is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry FordWater is life, and clean water means health.
Audrey HepburnExercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Bill GatesIt occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.
Terry PratchettThere 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.
Francis BaconScience and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
Thich Nhat HanhI guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.
Clint EastwoodLearning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim RohnMy chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.
Angelina JolieDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel JohnsonLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James MadisonIf you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.
Bill GatesNinety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
Bill GatesI don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.
Tom BradyMy son has died of AIDS.
Nelson MandelaLiving indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.
Robert Baden-PowellI love being active.
Dolly PartonI won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.
Stephen CurryI believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert EinsteinIf we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
HippocratesI’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgEarly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin FranklinI enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw