health quotes

I have little bones.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I’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.‘

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Touring is hard on the body.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

The 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.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Every 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.

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

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

No 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.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Water is my drink.

It 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.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

My 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.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

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.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I 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.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I 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.

Living 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.