Health Quotes: Inspiring Wellness & Healing Nuggets

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory"

"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, Author

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth"

Richard Baker, Politician

"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, Coach

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"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"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished"

Og Mandino, Author

"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"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, Philosopher

"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, Lawyer

"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint"

Mark Twain, Author

"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, Writer

"The wish for healing has always been half of health"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health"

Carol Alt, Model

"I've always enjoyed poor health"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"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, Psychologist

"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education"

John Bruton, Politician

"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people"

William Scranton, Politician

"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, Politician

"If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room"

David Lehman, Poet

"The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage"

John Shadegg, Politician

"When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies"

David Obey, Politician

"America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats"

Christopher Bond, Politician

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