928 private quotes tagged health

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” — Buddha

6 favs

“Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.” — Buddha

4 favs

“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.” — Francis Bacon

4 favs

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

3 favs

“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

3 favs

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.” — Carl Jung

3 favs

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha

2 favs

“The first wealth is health.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 favs

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” — Thomas Jefferson

2 favs

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.” — Deepak Chopra

2 favs

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 fav

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” — Henry David Thoreau

1 fav

“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.” — Lao Tzu

1 fav

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.” — Plato

1 fav

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.” — Alexander Pope

1 fav

“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

1 fav

“I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.” — Stephen Hawking

1 fav

“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” — E. B. White

1 fav

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.” — Albert Einstein

1 fav

“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.” — Karl Marx

1 fav

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” — William Penn

1 fav

“Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.” — Plutarch

1 fav

“There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.” — Josh Billings

1 fav

“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” — Johnny Carson

1 fav

“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.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

1 fav