"The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist."
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"Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars."
"Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey."
"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life."
"I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me."
"Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done."
"If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands."
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
"One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected."
"And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases."
"We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."
"Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people."
"Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed."
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
"We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns."
"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice."
"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."