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• Health:  The condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit.  Merriam Webster
• Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. World Health Organization
• Health is not simply the absence of sickness. Hannah Green
• Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.
• Even people who aren’t sick may not have optimal wellness. Brian Carter
• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.  K.S. Iyengar
• Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.  James H. West
• Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. Marcus Valerius Martial
• Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met, it never calls attention to its own existence.  Bertha Stuart Dyment
• My definition of fitness is to be able to carry out all of the activities in life that you desire, plus have a physical reserve at the end of the day to do something besides lie down and flip the remote. If you can do all that, if you’re functional, then you’re fit. It doesn’t matter if you have great abs or can bench-press your body weight. Those things have nothing to do with real life. James Glinn
• Healing,  Well-being,  Illness,  The body,  Vitality,  Being fully alive,  Exercise,  Diet

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Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live

• Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn
• If you don’t take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given…where are you going to live? Karyn Calabrese
• A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. Phillip Moffitt
• A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. Francis Bacon
• Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. Frank Gillette Burgess

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Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one

• There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. Novalis
• Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. Buddha
• Remember that the body is the temple of the soul. Those who mistreat the body tend to mistreat the soul within.  Observe vital health laws, such as exercise, healthy diet, and self- control.  Susan Santucci
• Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. Astrid Alauda
• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. K.S. Lyengar
• You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to live there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy. Ollie Hille
• If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman
• Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple. Swami Muktananda
• The body is a sacred garment. Martha Graham
• If there is any true temple, true gurdwara, true mosque or true church, it is our own body. This place God has designed for Himself, and He sits within it. Maharaj Charan Singh Ji
• As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul. Mahatma Gandhi
• My body is the temple of my soul. It is a gift from God. If I look after it, it will provide me with radiant energy to fulfil my purpose in life. Anthony Lambert

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Your body is the foundation of your life and freedom

• To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
• Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. Shawn Phillips
• In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. Henri-Frederic Amiel
• If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. Thomas Jefferson
• He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. Proverb
• I’ve shackled myself with the prison bars of ill health. Terri Guillemets
• A single, dancing thread ties the people of the world together in a cohesive fabric. This is our humanness and mortality. We are all born with a similar challenge, borne from the blessing of ownership of this complex physical body…. With this ownership… comes the sometimes immense responsibility of health maintenance. Garri Garripoli
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Good health is priceless…

• Of all your resources, your health is your most precious—more precious than your money, your house, your friends. Walter M. Bortz
• It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi
• The greatest wealth is health. Virgil
• Contentment is the greatest treasure. Health is the greatest possession. Confidence is the greatest friend. Lao Tzu
• So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. J. Reb Materi
• Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings. Ariphron
• He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. Arabic Proverb
• The poorest person would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all his or her money for health. C. Colton
• You are as important to your health as it is to you. Terri Guillemets
• He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. Italian Proverb
• To get rich never your risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker
• Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king. Isaac Bickerstaff
• Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy. Izaak Walton
• Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. Thomas Dekker, 1604
• The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth. Ecclesiasticus 30:15
• To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker
• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. Charles Caleb Colton
• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Charles Caleb Colton
• Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. Gwendolyn Brooks
• If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. John Locke

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… and is the groundwork of happiness

• The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. Henry Ward Beecher
• If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. Elbert Hubbard
• Happiness lies, first of all, in health. George William Curtis
• Happiness is nothing more than good health. Albert Schweitzer
• The groundwork of all happiness is health. James Leigh Hunt
• Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health. James Thomson
• What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. Thales of Miletus
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Good health makes you age slower

• 70% of American aging is not real aging. It’s just decay. It’s rot from the stuff that we do. All the lifestyle diseases … the diabetes, the obesity, the heart disease, much of the Alzheimer’s, lots of the cancers, and almost all of the osteoporosis, those are all decay. Nature doesn’t have that in store for any of us. We go out and buy it off the rack. Sir Ken Robinson
• Typical signs of aging are more the result of how you live than how long you’ve lived. Shawn Phillips
• Most of us should be able to extend our lifespan to surpass ninety-five (good) years of age. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
• Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti- oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation. Deepak Chopra
• The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Deepak Chopra

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Health is your natural state

• I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now. Louise Hay
• The human body has an amazing natural ability to defend, repair, heal, and even rejuvenate itself. Dr. Alejandro Junger
• Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health. Wayne Dyer
• Where health is no more than the absence of disease; Strength is the presence of abundant energy – a capacity and reserve to be a force in your world. It’s inclusive of health and at the same time so much more; it’s being healthy and flowing with energy, power and confidence. Shawn Phillips
• The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. Barbara Brennan
• Poor health is not caused by something you don’t have; it’s caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it’s something you have already if you don’t disturb it. Dean Ornish
• Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a ‘sound mind in a sound body’. Jostein Gaarder
• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. Albert Schweitzer
• Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own Affairs than we. Michel de Montaigne
• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature.  Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.   Leo Tolstoy
• Poor health is not caused by something you don’t have; it’s caused by disturbing something that you already have. Healthy is not something that you need to get, it’s something you have already if you don’t disturb it. Dean Ornish
• Sickness — nature’s vengeance for violating her laws. Charles Simmons
• Sickness is injured Nature’s revenge. James Lendall Basford
• The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. Edward Jenner
• The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves. Lewis Thomas
• The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need. Norman Cousins
• Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. Napoleon I

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Exercise, diet and peace of mind are the foundation stones of good health

• Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you have a kingdom. Jack Lalanne
• Vibrant health is based on natural principles. It grows over time out of regular exercise, proper nutrition, adequate rest, a healthy mind-set, avoiding substances that are harmful to the body. Stephen Covey
• If 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. Hippocrates
• The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry. Robert Hutchison
• Everyone should be his own physician. We ought to assist and not force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can produce digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable ills? Patience. Voltaire
• If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. Benjamin Franklin
• To avoid sickness, eat less; to prolong life worry less. Chu Hui Weng
• Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise. Mike Adams
• The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. Sir Philip Sidney
• To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. William Londen
• Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously. Jean-Pierre Barral
• He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. Chinese Proverb
• Sometimes I think our ancestors would laugh through their tears if they could see how we eat. We eat mostly from colorful boxes and cans. We spray our vegetables and fruits with deadly chemicals, then ship them half-way around the world before we eat them. It’s been a grand experiment in the wonders of technology, but what a price we’re paying in our health! Many scientific experiments have now demonstrated that if we simply return to eating more traditional, natural foods, the body often begins to heal itself. And, it’s becoming impossible to heal personal symptoms, unless they are understood in relationship to the need to heal the planet. Kristina Turner,
• The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison
• The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. John Redman
• Exercise,  Diet,  Inner peace

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At its heart, health is about harmony between body, mind and soul

• Mind, body, and spirit act in concert to determine health and well-being. Dr Carl Thoresen
• The part can never be well unless the whole is well. Plato
• Health and disease don’t just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity. Marilyn Ferguson
• To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms. Deepak Chopra
• The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together. Kurdish Saying
• Health is a relationship between you and your body. Terri Guillemets
• The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity. Boris Pasternak
• True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. Humboldt
• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. Henry David Thoreau
• Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other. Candace Pert
• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. Plato
• Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies.  Jeff Miller
• Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.  James H. West
• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.  K.S. Iyengar
• Every symptom has a story to tell about your life. A fascinating story, that can reveal the complex links between your body, mind, emotions and spirit. Kristina Turner
• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. Cicero
• In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. Alison Rose Levy
• The cause is within us. The cure is within us. When we know this our concept of disease is no longer that of something fixed upon the body cells which must be purged, cut or burned away. It is not something coming in from the outside which we cannot prevent. Rather it is a change from within, and we must find the reason why the body changes its perfect pattern to vibrate to discord rather than to harmony. Rebecca Beard
• The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole. Plato
• Harmony between mind, body, soul

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Health is as much about the health of the spirit as it is about health of the body

• 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. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. Francis Bacon
• A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck
• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Cicero
• Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit. William Saroyan
• To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms. Deepak Chopra
• Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not contradictory. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
• To feel keenly the poetry of a morning’s roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. Henri Frederic Amiel
• My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. Terri Guillemets
• The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity. Boris Pasternak
• What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul. Develop your spirit that it may gain strength to control the body and follow the natural laws of nutrition and hygiene. Kemetic Wisdom

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Much of our physical illnesses originate in the mind

• The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind. Hazrat Khan
• 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. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Most of the time we think we’re sick, it’s all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe
• Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax. Terri Guillemets
• The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. Jean Baptiste Moliere
• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Cicero
• Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. Martin Luther
• Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. Zacharty Bercovitz
• Wellness that is being allowed, or the wellness that is being denied, is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic. Every bit of it, no exceptions. Esther Hicks
• If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be. Emile Coue
• I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness. Tom Cochrane
• An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa. Terri Guillemets

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Therefore, keeping your mind and spirit healthy are as important as looking after your body

• Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy. Deepak Chopra
• The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately. Plato
• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. Cicero
• The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejoices. It is also a potent form of self- healing.  Eckhart Tolle
• So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind. Georg Feuerstein
• Hate and fear can poison the body as surely as any toxic chemicals. Joseph Krimsky
• With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. Samuel Johnson
• Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have. Jack Canfield
• There is no question that the things we think have a tremendous effect upon our bodies. If we can change our thinking, the body frequently heals itself. Everett Koop, M.D.
• Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind. Mary Baker Eddy

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Your thoughts and beliefs influence your health

• I admit thoughts influence the body. Albert Einstein
• If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be. Emile Coué
• The body is sensitive. It registers every thought and feeling. Be tender with it. Brendan O’Regan
• I have looked through the list of illnesses, and did not find cares or sad thoughts mentioned among them. That is a mistake, surely. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)
• It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1865
• With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought. Ernest Holmes
• Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it. Ann Wigmore
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A healthy mind with healthy beliefs has great power to cure you and keep you healthy

• Hundreds of investigations have demonstrated the power of the human mind over disease. The treatment principle might be summed up this way: Just as an antibiotic drug may stop an infection or surgery may eliminate a malignancy, so the mind—your mind—has the capacity to treat or even cure many of your serious physical and emotional complaints. Herbert Benson
• What the mind believes, the body manifests. Dozens of research studies have shown that what a person believes about their health leads to that belief becoming real for them. Will Bowen

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Maintaining a positive, cheerful outlook on life has powerful benefits for your health

• A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. George Matthew Adams
• Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. Joseph Addison
• Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. Arthur Murphy
• To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. William Louden
• Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease. Thomas C. Haliburton
• The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful – never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health. Proverb
• Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too. John Armstrong
• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison
• He who sings frightens away his ills. Miguel De Cervantes
• If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors – rest, cheerfulness, and moderate diet. Proverb
• Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, — an open and noble temper. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Confidence and hope do more good than physic. Galen
• Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. Proverb
• My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. Leslie Grimutter
• A picture of health requires a happy frame of mind.
• Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Dr John Hagelin
• Happily we are learning that the mind has to do with the misdeeds of the body, and that there are no more valuable therapeutic agents than cheerfulness, happiness, and hope. Olive Thorne Miller
• He who can believe himself well, will be well. Ovid
• Positivity,  Optimism,  Cheerfulness

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1.  A calm, peaceful, happy mind

• I have decided to be happy because it’s good for one’s health. Voltaire
• What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way. The Dalai Lama
• There is little point in having low cholesterol and rock hard abs if you don’t love your life. John Robbins
• When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-being. When you are appreciating, you are allowing Well- being. Abraham-Hicks
• It is a scientific fact that people who are happy get sick less, recover faster, accomplish more and live much longer. Happiness of the heart by any measure is necessary for Self Health. J. Michael Zenn
• The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick. Bernie Siegel
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Gautama Buddha
• Joy and temperance and repose slam the door on the doctor’s nose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• He who breathes deepest lives most. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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2.  Keeping a positive outlook on life

• Smoking two packs of cigarettes a day has the same effect on how long you will live as having a negative view on life. J. Michael Zenn
• A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal
• Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. Arthur Murphy
• Take a break from media and television that isn’t delivering a positive message. The input you absorb is a heavy contributor to your health, or lack of it. J. Goldwag
• A healthy mind can work wonders on a sick body, and a healthy body can work wonders on a sick mind. J.J. Goldwag
• Finding a positive outlook despite circumstances helps ensure vibrant health. J. Goldwag
• Your ability to view circumstances in a favorable light is your most powerful weapon against disease. J.J. Goldwag
• Lower-energy emotions like fear, anger, regret, and jealousy are magnets for health issues. Release the mind from such disturbing thoughts, and you will find much more room for joy and love. J. Goldwag
• Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. Joseph Addison
• To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. William Londen
• Optimism,  Positivity

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3.  Temperance and moderation

• Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. Julia Child
• He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain. Gautama Buddha
• Temperance,  Moderation

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4.  Plenty of time for sleep, rest and renewal

• A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. Irish Proverb
• God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil. Henry Ward Beecher
• Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment.  Jeb Dickerson
• Nothing helps your circadian rhythms more than getting up and going to sleep at the same times every day. Frank Lipman, M.D.
• Silence gives rest to the mind…and this means giving rest to the body. Sometimes rest is the only medicine needed. Frank Lipman, M.D.
• Sleep is not a waste of time. During sleep, a variety of biological processes take place that restore our bodies and minds. Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer
• Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker
• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Sometimes the most productive thing one can do is to sleep.
• Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment. Elizabeth Rudnick
• We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• When given a chance, even the most fatigued body wants to find its way back to balance. Dr. Alejandro Junger
• Sleep,  Rest and renewal

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5.  Laughter

• When people use humor, the autonomic nervous system just tones down a bit to take it off high gear, and that allows the heart to relax. Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
• Always laugh when you can… it is a cheap medicine. Lord Byron
• A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. Proverb
• Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. Arnold H. Glasgow
• He who laughs, lasts. Mary Pettibone Poole
• Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Henry Ward Beecher
• Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play. Max Eastman
• I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion. Abraham Lincoln
• People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. James J. Walsh
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6.  Sunshine

• I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. Henry Ward Beecher
• Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. Flemish Proverb
• I’m not a doctor and I don’t know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. Terri Guillemets
• Now, if light exercises such a power over other created beings, why should it not also have a distinct influence on the human body and mind?… It may rightly be asserted that a clear atmosphere and sunlight are most powerful in producing a genial disposition in man and therefore have a vital influence on mind and body. Sebastian Kneipp
• Where the sun does not go, there goes the doctor…. Watch for the sun, for life and health dwell in the sun’s beams; and when it is shining, open every window in the house until it goes down again. “Take Sun Baths,” Food, Home and Garden, November 1897
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Don’t fall into the sad trap of only appreciating your health after you lose it

• Health is not valued until sickness comes. Thomas Fuller
• Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. Josh Billings
• From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. Catalan Proverb
• Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley
• Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
• Most people count good health as the greatest blessing, but only when they are sick.

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Looking after your health is a sign you love and value yourself

• When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary. Scott Peck
• Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly. From A Course In Miracles
• Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything. Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Determine to start looking after your health today

• If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with. Deepak Chopra
• When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is a disease. V. L. Allineare
• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. Buddha
• As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. Adelle Davis
• Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind. Steve Maraboli

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Make your health a priority but don’t be too obsessive about it

• There are lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. Josh Billing
• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. George Dennison Prentice
• Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. François Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. Benjamin Franklin
• People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Laurence Sterne
• Some maladies are so grave that we die of them; others, though not exactly mortal, are such as may be observed and felt without much study; finally, there are some that are hardly recognizable without a microscope. But then they look perfectly awful. This microscope is — hypochondria. I believe that if men were really to set themselves to study these microscopical diseases, they would have the satisfaction of being ill every day of their lives. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. Sydney J. Harris
• 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 in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying.  We have lost all confidence in the human body.   Lewis Thomas
• To be always considering “what we should eat, and what we should drink, and wherewithal we should be clothed,” in order to avoid the approach of disease, is the most likely means of provoking its attack. A man who is continually feeling his pulse, is never likely to have a good one. If he swallows his food from the same motive as he does his physic, it will neither be enjoyed nor digested so well as if he ate in obedience to the dictates of an uncalculating appetite. The hypochondriac who is in the habit of weighing his meals, will generally find that they lay heavy on his stomach. If he takes a walk or ride, with no other view than to pick up health, he will seldom meet it on the road. John Reid, M.D., 1818
• If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.  Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Always listen to your body, especially any signs of pain

• Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen. Shakti Gawain
• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. S. Lewis
• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Henry Miller
• The body never lies. Martha Graham
• Sometimes your body is smarter than you are.
• Those things that hurt, instruct. Benjamin Franklin
• These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Rumi
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Get to understand your body

• In order to trust your body as a guide, the first step is to begin to understand it. Deepak Chopra
• Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz – something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding. Chungliang Al Huang

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By far the best cure of all is preventing illness in the first place

• To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely. Rene Dubos
• Surgeons can cut out everything except cause. Herbert M. Shelton
• The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Alva Edison
• The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.  Ashley Montagu
• Your lifestyle – how you live, eat, emote, and think – determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live. Brian Carter
• Prevention is better than cure. Dutch Proverb
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Benjamin Franklin
• Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease. Denis Burkitt
• He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he who prevents it is the safest physician. Thomas Fuller
• If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.  Denis Burkitt
• Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs. Herbert M. Shelton
• Mainstream medicine would be way different if they focused on prevention even half as much as they focused on intervention.
• The superior doctor prevents sickness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness.  The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.  Chinese Proverb
• Cancer is much more preventable than treatable. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
• It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness.   DeForest Clinton Jarvis

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• I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now. Louise Hay
• I am healthy, whole and complete. Louise L. Hay
• I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun. Louise Hay
• Become more aware of how you choose to treat this miracle of a body. Talk to it as you give it exercise, good food, and generous amounts of fresh water. “Bless you, wondrous body of mine. By being more aware of what a perfect creation you are, I will avoid mistreating you.”  Wayne Dyer

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• A bad cold wouldn’t be so annoying if it weren’t for the advice of our friends. Kin Hubbard
• A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement. Jess C. Scott
• A good husband is healthy and absent. Japanese proverb
• A healthy sleep not only makes your life longer, but also shortens the workday.
• A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. Joan Welsh
• Apart from health, family, friends, possessions, memories, rights and reputation, what do you have to lose? Ashleigh Brilliant
• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain
• Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other
• Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs. Mary S. Ott
• I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. Charles Dickens
• Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
• Doctor: A man who suffers from good health.
• Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. Terri Guillemets
• Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber
• Early to rise, early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead. Doug MacLeod
• Exercise freaks are the ones putting stress on the health care system. Rush Limbaugh
• Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate. Charles M. Schulz
• Garlic is good for your health because no-one comes close enough to give you germs.
• Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
• Happiness? That’s nothing more than good health and a poor memory. Albert Schweitzer
• Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. Phyllis Diller
• Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors. Quentin Crisp
• Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. Robert Redford
• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx
• Healthy is just a precancerous condition. Drew Hastings
• I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. Samuel Butler
• Hypochondriac: One who enjoys poor health, then complains of feeling better.
• Hypochondriac: Someone who enjoys bad health.
• First need in the reform of hospital management? That’s easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. Martin H. Fischer
• Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. John Henry Cardinal Newman
• For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens. Terri Guillemets
• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac Bashevis Singer
• I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. Steven Wright
• I enjoy a glass of wine each night for its health benefits. The other glasses are for my witty comebacks and flawless dance moves.
• I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. Johnny Carson
• I moved to New York for my health; I’m paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified. Anita Weiss
• I personally stay away from all health foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get! George Burns
• I used to work at a health food store; I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job. Steven Wright
• If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease. Robert Green Ingersoll
• Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. Denis Diderot
• If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself. Leon Eldred
• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult. J. O’Rourke
• If you have s stomach ache in France you get a suppository, in Germany a health spa, in the United States they cut your stomach open and in Britain they put you on a waiting list. Phil Hammond
• Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. Martin H. Fischer
• If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer. Clement Freud
• If you think health care is expensive now wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. J. O’Rourke
• In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. Fannie Lou Hamer
• Internship: A sleepless ordeal imposed on young M.D.’s for the purpose of weeding out the weak and infirm among them and eroding the health of the survivors sufficiently to ensure better empathy in the years to come.
• It has now been proved beyond reasonable doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
• It’s no longer a question of staying healthy; it’s a question of finding a sickness you like. Jackie Mason
• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. K. Chesterton
• Lawyers make excellent patients; they have excellent health care and they never get better. David Hyde Pierce
• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson
• Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat. Jill Johnson
• Love is staying up all night with a sick child or a healthy adult. David Frost
• Money cannot buy health but I’ll settle for a diamond studded wheelchair. Dorothy Parker
• My struggle to stay healthy is gradually killing me. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Robert Heinlein
• Like everybody else, when I don’t know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. George Jean Nathan
• Since smoking might injure your health let’s be careful not to smoke too much. Warning label
• Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips. Terri Guillemets
• The best reason to divorce or break-up with a man is for health reasons: you’re sick of him.
• The English find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. Pamela Frankau
• The only 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. Mark Twain
• The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! Mark Russell
• The way he treats his body, you’d think he was renting. Robert Brault
• This stuff tastes awful. I could make a fortune selling it in my health food store. Woody Allen
• To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
• We are the sort of people who make health insurance popular. Terry Sawchuk
• We drink to one another’s health and spoil our own. Jerome K. Jerome
• When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health. If everything is simply jake, then you’re frightened of death. P. Donleavy
• Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other. Terri Guillemets
• In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seemed to me to be the only rational position to take on life. John Diamond
• If one’s bowels move, one is happy; and if they don’t move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. Lin Yutang
• Why is it everything I love is either unhealthy, addicting or has multiple restraining orders against me?
• The only 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. Mark Twain
• Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
• If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. Logan Clendening
• 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
• The only 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. Mark Twain
• A bad cold wouldn’t be so annoying if it weren’t for the advice of our friends.  Kin Hubbard

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