"Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way."
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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
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"This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer."
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"We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure."
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"When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly."
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"If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill."
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"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity."
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"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."
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"The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled."
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"I listen with love to my body's messages."
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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
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"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."
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"If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner."
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"If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances."
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"Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to."
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"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."
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"I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."
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"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"
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"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being."
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"Medication without explanation is obscene."
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