Song brings us health, and blossoms will heal wounds. Therefore, I say, happy are those who understand sound and color.
Agni Yoga,Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book Two: Illumination, 108. (1925)
The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing Your mind they'll ease Your will they'll mend And charge you not a shilling.
Anonymous nursery rhyme set to the tune of "Yankee Doodle", quoted in "The Health Club" inSchool Life, Vol. IV (January - June 1920), p. 17
Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?
Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden?
Anonymous,Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, l. 177. Text and translation: Sir Alexander Chope (1830)
Health, eldest of Gods, with thee may I dwell for the rest of my life and find thee a gracious house-mate. If there be any joy in wealth, or in children, or in that kingly rule that maketh men like to Gods, or in the desires we hunt with the secret nets of Aphrodite, or if there be any other delight or diversion sent of Heaven unto man, ’tis with thy aid, blessed Health, that they all do thrive and shine in the converse of the Graces; and without thee no man alive is happy.
Ariphron of Sicyon, Paean to Health, quoted byAthenaeus, 15. 701f; translated by J. M. Edmonds,Lyra Graeca, vol. 3 (1927), p. 400
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat" inNo Poems: or Around the World Backwards and Sideways (1932)
Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetables aren't healthy, they're dead. Nofood is healthy. Unless you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful.
Thank Him for health. Consecrate it as His trust to innocent enjoyment, manly effort, social usefulness, and preparation for an honorable and holy career.
William Ellery Channing, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 299
There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.
Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.
Thomas Cogan,Heaven of Health (1596). Quoting fromSchola Salerni, p. 32
Tous les jours, à tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux.
Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
Émile Coué, in his auto-suggestive formula for health, as quoted inThe Practice of Autosuggestion by the Method of Emile Coué (1922) by Cyrus Harry Brooks
Variant translation: Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
You take care of your personal health because you want to live a long time, and you want to be happy. You want to be healthy. But we can't be happy or healthy if we don't take care of our life support system, the planet.
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud, as quoted inThe Observer (27 December 1964)
Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
Christ'sgospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased.
John McClellan Holmes, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 299
There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life:brain,blood, andbreath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.
The causes which affect human health are often obscure, many of them so subtile that they are discerned with difficulty, and can only be appreciated by those who devote their time to the study and observation of them through all their changes. They even sometimes escape the keenest observation of the most accurate observers; yet it is reasonable to suppose that those who prosecute such investigations with zeal actually make some progress in knowledge; and if any discovery of knowledge be made, it is not a matter of doubt that it should be employed to assure the public good. It is easier to preserve health than to cure disease, and it implies less expense of means.
With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing—but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (July 6, 1787); in Julian P. Boyd, ed.,The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1955), vol. 11, p. 558.
There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.
Philippe Kahn, interview withNPR (January 2007), regarding innovative uses of the camera phone[1]
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance inliving as much as staving offfailure, putting offdying. We have lost all confidence in thehuman body.
Ah! what avail the largest gifts ofHeaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How tasteless then whatever can be given! Health is the vitalprinciple ofbliss, And exercise of health.
James Thomson,Castle of Indolence (1748), Canto II, Stanza 55
Health is the secondblessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing thatmoney cannot buy.
Izaak Walton,The Compleat Angler (1653–55), pt. 1, ch. 21
If aman is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going. ~E. B. White
If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
E. B. White, in a letter to theNew York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947)
