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Friday, 4 July 2008
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home." (Everett, Edward - Home)

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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.
As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.
As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.
Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.
Energy is eternal delight.
From labor health, from health contentment springs.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
Health consists with temperance alone.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Health is my expected heaven.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
I've never felt better.
If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100]
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature --if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you --know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
The healthy die first.
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.
The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
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