"I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself."
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"In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time."
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"In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others."
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"Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it."
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"The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness."
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"The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another."
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"health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress."
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"As for health, consider yourself well."
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"Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself."
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"Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live."
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"The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck."
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"To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery."
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"To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left."
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"There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite."
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"Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other."
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"A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart."
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"It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run."
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"All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it."
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"It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces."
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"Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect."
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