The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
- G. K. Chesterton, Come to Think of It
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
- Plato
Life is not merely being alive, but being well.
- Martial, 66 AD, Epigrams
We know a great deal more about the causes of disease than we do about the causes of
health.
- M. Scott Peck, TRLT
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are only consequences.
- Robert G. Ingersol
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
- Hippocrates
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism – in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can he really idle.
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
- Robert Bly
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
- Nathaniel Branden
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
- - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Alex is a journalist and health blogger. He writes about everything from yoga to meditation and from healthy eating to critical illness cover.