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"As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body."
"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
"Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health."
"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well."
"Before healing others, heal yourself"
"Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?"
"Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring."
"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."
"All healthy men have thought of their own suicide"
"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within."
"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper."
"If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters."
"No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want."
"Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth."
"The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow."
"Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health."
"I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself."
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
"Health requires healthy food."
"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!"
