Hippocrates
Physician
"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"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."
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"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."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"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."
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"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition."
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
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"Health is the greatest of human blessings."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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"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."
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"Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most."
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
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"The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine."
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
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"I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."
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"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."
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"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients."
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
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"The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task."
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"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
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"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
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