health
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘health’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.” -Julie Bishop
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“Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.” -Robert Hall
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“Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.” -Tony Dungy
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“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.” -Ovid
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“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.” -Clarence Day
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“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” -E. B. White
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“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.” -Paul Cezanne
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“I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it ‘content.’” -Lauren Bacall
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“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.” -Meryl Streep
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“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.” -Jean Paul
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“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” -Diane Abbott
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“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.” -Theodor Adorno
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“One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.” -Allen West
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“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“Health consists with temperance alone.” -Alexander Pope
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“After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.” -Helen Gurley Brown
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“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.” -Judith Viorst
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“With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.” -Nora Ephron
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“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” -Louise Hart
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“I’ve never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.” -Salman Rushdie
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“There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.” -Josh Billings
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“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” -Walter Cronkite
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“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.” -Mason Cooley
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“Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.” -Christopher…
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“Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.” -Lois Capps
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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” -Franklin P. Adams
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“Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.” -Samuel Butler
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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.” -William Hazlitt
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“If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we’ll have them tomorrow.” -Kathy Ireland
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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” -Ingrid Bergman
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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.” -Pythagoras
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“I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.” -Plutarch
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“A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.” -James H. Douglas
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“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” -Adam Ant
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“It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.” -Francis Bacon
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“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I’ve had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.” -Hillary Clinton
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“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.” -Karl Marx
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“A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.” -James Allen
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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Health is not valued till sickness comes.” -Thomas Fuller
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“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.” -Abdul Kalam
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“Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” -Publilius Syrus
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“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.” -Roger Babson
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“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.” -Cyril Connolly
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“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.” -Colin Powell
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“For whatever reason, maybe it’s because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.” -Lance Armstrong
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“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.” -Edmund Burke
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“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.” -Abraham Maslow
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“I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.” -Donald Trump
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“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” -Hippocrates
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“The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.” -Mitt Romney
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“I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.” -Junipero Serra
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“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” -Denis Waitley
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“Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.” -Ralph Nader
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“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.” -Patrick Henry
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“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.” -Clint Eastwood
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“If you’re working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That’s why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little…
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“All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” -John Locke
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“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” -Redd Foxx
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“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.” -Mahalia Jackson
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“The first wealth is health.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Did you ever see the customers in health – food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half – dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.” -Bill Cosby
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“Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” -Johnny Carson
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“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.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.” -Buddha
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“I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I’m not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.” -Lexa Doig
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“What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.” -Esther Williams
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“You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.” -Courtney Thorne Smith
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“I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.” -Fran Drescher
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“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.” -Lao Tzu
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“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.” -Albert Einstein
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“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” -Mark Twain
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“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” -Jim Rohn
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“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.” -Billy Graham
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“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.” -Johannes Brahms
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“Success doesn’t mean that you are healthy, success doesn’t mean that you’re happy, success doesn’t mean that you’re rested. Success really doesn’t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.” -Victoria Principal
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“As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.” -Sallust
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“My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.” -Kiana Tom
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“People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.” -Henrik Ibsen
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“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn’t each person give his life for his calling?” -Clara Schumann
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“Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.” -George A. Smith
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“I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.” -Lorna Luft
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“I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it’s fine.” -Mike Piazza
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“The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.” -Francesca Annis
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“Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.” -John Deacon
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“I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.” -Gloria Swanson
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“I eat really healthy, and if I’m tired, I take a nap.” -Casper Van Dien
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“Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.” -Henry St. John
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“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” -Jean Kerr
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“I stand before you a totally healthy person.” -Melissa Etheridge
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“I’ve made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.” -Picabo Street
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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.” -Joseph Addison
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“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.” -Paul Walker
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“I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.” -Spike Milligan
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“Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.” -Carl Jung
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“If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.” -Robin Wright Penn
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“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” -Robert Urich
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“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” -Ralph Marston
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“I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don’t exercise and do the other two, I still don’t think it’s going to help you that much.” -Mike Ditka
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“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” -William Penn
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“I believe that if you’re healthy, you’re capable of doing everything. There’s no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.” -Pedro Martinez
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“How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It’s simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.” -William Shatner
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“My New Year’s resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.” -James Lafferty
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“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.” -Robert Foster Bennett
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“When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.” -Annette Funicello
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“America’s health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.” -Tom Harkin
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“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” -Tom Stoppard
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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” -John Muir
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“I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.” -Denzel Washington
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“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.” -Epictetus
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“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.” -Og Mandino
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