Health Quotes

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

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection.
With so many distractions,
it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

It is the mind that makes the body.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

Love is the medicine that saves from disease.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

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.

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation

As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.