Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jorge Luis Borges

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Joni Eareckson Tada

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

Kenneth H. Cooper

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

Kerry Washington

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

Jonathan Swift

I row after health like a waterman...

Lucy Stone

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Lord Chesterfield

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

Lord Chesterfield

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Malcolm Fraser

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Majora Carter

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

Malachy McCourt

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Maimonides

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

Mahatma Gandhi

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

Mahatma Gandhi

What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Northrop Frye

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

Ornette Coleman

It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming - and because of that, the beginners feel like they're professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.

Ornette Coleman

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Oliver Sacks

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

Oliver Sacks

For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

Oliver Sacks

Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.

Norman Vincent Peale

Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts.

Norman Vincent Peale

You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibilities .

If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be.

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

Henri Nouwen

The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.

Henri Nouwen

Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

Hayley Mills

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Herodotus

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

Henry Paulson

I see the underlying economy as being very healthy,

Henry Ward Beecher

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.