Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

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...

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.

Merv Griffin

I've outlived all my diet doctors.

Merle Shain

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

Mason Cooley

Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

Michael Graves

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

Michael Gove

They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

Menander

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

Melody Beattie

Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.

Marie Osmond

I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'

Mariel Hemingway

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

Mariel Hemingway

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

Mariel Hemingway

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

Ted Strickland

The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

Manly Hall

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

Mallory Ortberg

In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property.

Malcolm X

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

Mahatma Gandhi

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

John C. Maxwell

I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.

Louise Hay

Love is the most important healing power there is.