"The best doctor gives the least medicines."
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"The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
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"Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit."
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"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
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"Books are a narcotic."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that."
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
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"There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price."
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"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are."
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"Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care."
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"The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work."
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"As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself."
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
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"Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place."
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"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body."
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"Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman."
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"Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong."
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"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."
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"No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
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