Quotes

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.  
- World Health Organization

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, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.  
- Leo Tolstoy

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. 
- Seneca

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha

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

Health is not valued till sickness comes. 
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
- William Shakespeare 

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
- Elbert Hubbard

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
- Alexander the Great

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
 - Albert Schweitzer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
 - Mark Twain

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. 
- Aristotle

The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
- Michel De Montaigne