"Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health."
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"The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed."
"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."
"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
"No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature."
"You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day."
"in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others."
"Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies."
"Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?"
"Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none."
"In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men."
"'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes."
"The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts."
"Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational."
"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money."
"Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature."
"One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations."
"There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure."
"Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return."
"When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands."