"The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated."
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"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
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"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
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"The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people."
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"Walking is man's best medicine."
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"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything."
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"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."
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"The sound body is the product of the sound mind."
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"Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health."
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"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."
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"It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts."
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"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."
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"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion."
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"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."
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"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
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"My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS."
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"Healing is the result of clear thinking."
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"You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker."
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"While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego."
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"No" is a complete sentence."
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