Good health implies the proper functioning of all body
organs as well as mind. A healthy person is free from disease and
anxiety. Healthy peaple feel active, cheerful and happy and they are
helpful to the society too.
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. ~G.K.
Chesterton
There's lots of people in this world
who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time
to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
I
reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is
not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel
Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
Health
is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization,
1948
The power of love to change bodies is
legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.
Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history,
"tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element
in healing. ~Larry Dossey
Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~Author Unknown
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx
As
a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something
fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be
seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure,
putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis
Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. ~John Steinbeck
The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ~Leon Eldred
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
Poor
health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by
disturbing something that you already have. Healthy is not something
that you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't
disturb it. ~Dean Ornish
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez
Physical
ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher,
and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The...
patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of
his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair
shop. ~Quentin Regestein
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert Ingersoll
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero
If
you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and
happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you
want. ~Elbert Hubbard
People who are always
taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure
which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~Laurence Sterne
To
feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just
escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri
Frederic Amiel
The longer I live the less
confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the
regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe,
1800
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
Despise
no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it.... There is a
wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he
finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve
health. ~Francis Bacon
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
There
are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice,
the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit
of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the
toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer
Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. ~Napoleon I
The
I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.
~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A
Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
In
minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies
stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.
~Alison Rose Levy, "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal,
Jan/Feb 2002
Men that look no further than their
outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their
constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of
man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder
that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead
to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ~Thomas Browne
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. ~Terri Guillemets
What
some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't
much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice,
Prenticeana, 1860
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Terri Guillemets
We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~Cicero
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Health
is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one
is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of
the soul open. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. ~Charles Simmons
Each
patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing
this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides
within each patient a chance to go to work. ~Albert Schweitzer
If ones bowels move, one is happy; and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. ~Lin Yutang, 1937
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. ~Gwendolyn Brooks
Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.) ~Juvenal
[I]t
seems as if pain were the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood.
~Moritz Heinrich Romberg, A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, 1840,
translated from German by Edward H. Sieveking
The
hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to
acknowledge the virtues of physical morality. ~Dr Ron Spallone,
denverchiropractor.com
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
Nature does require
Her time of preservation, which perforce
I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal
Must give my attendance to.
~William Shakespeare
Health is not valued until sickness comes. ~Thomas Fuller
Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~Josh Billings
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb
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
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. ~Thomas Dekker, Westward Ho, 1604
Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. ~Martin H. Fischer
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman
With
every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative
prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.
~Ernest Holmes, "Health Is Normal"
Diseases
crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them,
rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. ~Robert
Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~Terri Guillemets
Life
is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend
the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy. ~Deepak Chopra
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. ~Francis Bacon
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
Health
is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit
as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being
and outlook of a man. ~James H. West
He who can believe himself well, will be well. ~Ovid
The
root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The
branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all
parts work together. ~Kurdish Saying
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld
From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep
Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. ~Author Unknown
Every man's disease is his personal property. ~Alonzo Clark
Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind supports the body too.
~John Armstrong
I
am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a
good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your
hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
~Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the
world backwards and sideways, 1932
Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other. ~Terri Guillemets
Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. ~Joseph Addison
If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill,
let yourself fall ill.
~Rumi
A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. ~Kin Hubbard
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. ~Aldous Huxley
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin
Beauty
isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta
eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside. ~Animal
Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku,
Arisa Hosaka, and Toshihiro Kawabata
The message
that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole....
Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our
conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is
peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true
nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
~Joan Borysenko
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato
The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole. ~Plato
Illnesses
which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors
with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear
through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear,
nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather
than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be
followed; they are not contradictory. ~'Abdu'l-Bahá
The
scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an
ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932
It is part of the cure to want to be cured. ~Seneca
I
am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the
nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and
fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
~Charles Dickens
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke
To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng
What
health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul. Develop your
spirit that it may gain strength to control the body and follow the
natural laws of nutrition and hygiene. ~Kemetic Wisdom
When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
Food-addiction,
or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is
the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I
fear to hope that its recognition spells progress. ~Herbert M. Shelton,
Getting Well
Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor. ~Author Unknown
Although
they can be very healthy I believe the current focus on gluten free
lifestyles is a little misplaced. I see an awful lot of people that
would benefit much more from a glutton free lifestyle. ~Tim Irwin
The
cause is within us. The cure is within us. When we know this our
concept of disease is no longer that of something fixed upon the body
cells which must be purged, cut or burned away. It is not something
coming in from the outside which we cannot prevent. Rather it is a
change from within, and we must find the reason why the body changes its
perfect pattern to vibrate to discord rather than to harmony. ~Rebecca
Beard, 1951
The doctor of the future will give no
medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human
frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. ~Thomas
Edison
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. ~Jules Romains, Dr. Knock, 1923
The surest road to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill.
Most of those evils we poor mortals know
From doctors and imagination flow.
~Charles Churchill
I
suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages,
omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each
day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs. ~Sam
Keen
When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Much
of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,
1923
The deviation of man from the state in which
he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a
prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. ~Charles Dickens
People
with diseases like AIDS and cancer feel an urgency in straightening out
their lives, examining their purpose, and confronting the reality of
death. Ironically, in spite of the physical and emotional pain they
experience, many of these patients express gratitude for this
opportunity. The encounter with their own mortality changes their
priorities in life, their values and aspirations. For many, it makes
them truly cherish life and the ability to give and receive love. ~Jeff
Seibert
Everyone should be his own physician. We
ought to assist and not force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees
with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can
digest. What medicine can produce digestion? Exercise. What will recruit
strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable ills? Patience.
~Voltaire
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ~Hippocrates
I
am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known
stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood
levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But
if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same
changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals. ~Bernie Siegel
You
can learn to follow the inner self, the inner physician that tells you
where to go. Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things
that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain. ~O. Carl
Simonton
You are as important to your health as it is to you. ~Terri Guillemets
Every
day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and
less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is
not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes,
our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really
enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are
already present. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
The mechanisms
of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so
effective that most diseases are self-terminating. ~René Dubos
Let
us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands
her own Affairs than we. ~Michel de Montaigne, "Of Experience,"
translated from French by Charles Cotton
The
physician who teaches people to sustain their health is the superior
physician. The physician who waits to treat people until after their
health is lost is considered to be inferior. This is like waiting until
one's family is starving to begin to plant seeds in the garden. ~Author
unknown, similar to statement in The Yellow Emperor's Classic of
Internal Medicine
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. ~Thomas Wolfe
Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. ~Martin H. Fischer
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. ~DeForest Clinton Jarvis
I
have come to understand that some of the deepest and most effective
healing is not found at a doctor's office or a hospital, but rather from
inside ourselves. Our bodies are designed for self-healing, and we are
capable of both boosting and blocking that ability. ~Dr. Daju Suzanne
Friedman, Heal Yourself with Qigong
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial
There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Jean Baptiste Molière
Illness tells us what we are. ~Italian Saying
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. ~Stephen Levine
The
marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our
being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
~Norman Cousins
Health... is not so much a state, but a force: the power to resist and overcome threats to one's well-being. ~Gregory P. Fields
Healing
comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose
chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world
of Spirit. ~Malidoma Patrice Somé
Confidence and hope do more good than physic. ~Galen
Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music.
~A. Cornelius Celsus
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician. ~Vernon Howard, 1967
Everyone
who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in
the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good
passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell,
to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag,
Illness as Metaphor, 1977
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit. ~William Saroyan
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
Our illness is often our healing. ~Mooji
The
great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.
Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the
opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and
rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system
isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul
exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't
be forever violated with impunity. ~Boris Pasternak
The
existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the
true illness which is held by man in his mind. ~Hazrat Khan
A
single, dancing thread ties the people of the world together in a
cohesive fabric. This is our humanness and mortality. We are all born
with a similar challenge, borne from the blessing of ownership of this
complex physical body.... With this ownership... comes the sometimes
immense responsibility of health maintenance. ~Garri Garripoli, Qigong:
Essence of the Healing Dance
Doctors are always
working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter
are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot
Sickness
is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its
resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has
to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other
men's necessities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health
is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape,
and bodily exercise on the mind. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and
Social Aims, "Inspiration"
If you wish to keep as
well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891
After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell
Illness
is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you
are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to
an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be
understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who
you are. ~Barbara Brennan
The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function. ~Rudolph Ballentine
First
need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of
all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H.
Fischer
In the face of such overwhelming
statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the
only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond
Health
and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing
from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of
consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This
recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.
~Marilyn Ferguson
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
To live
without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state
of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it.
Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is
sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance
existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable,
physical symptoms. ~Deepak Chopra
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating
If
you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually
live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27
December 1964
Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego.... ~Carl Jung
If
you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually
find that you are sick. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose
When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up. ~Terri Guillemets
A
great many sick persons are allowed to drift into a critical condition
when ill—from which many never rally, because they are not fed—not
furnished with such nutritive material as their enfeebled powers can
digest. ~King Chambers, quoted by John Milner Fothergill in A Manual of
Dietetics, 1886
If you do everything you should
do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the
best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you
would otherwise. ~Logan Clendening
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 druther not. ~Mark Twain
Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets
The
great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the
public, is that most things get better by themselves. ~Lewis Thomas
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason
Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax. ~Terri Guillemets
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown
May
you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you
rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer
Stanhope, 1749
Those obsessed with health are
not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated
carelessness about oneself. ~Sydney J. Harris
My excess fat scares me — it's a ticking time bomb to my body. ~Carrie Latet, 2006
I
refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure
worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~John Mortimer
Personal healing on all
levels—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—comes when we get in
touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of
ourselves, we become whole. ~Shakti Gawain
So
many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend
their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family
If
the physician comes from a far land and speaks in a strange and
unintelligible language, the common people think him clever, gather
around him, and seek his advice. The physician does not work the cure.
He does but prepare and clear the path for nature, the real healer....
If you can carry out your treatment effectively with diet or with
healing foods, then do not use drugs, for most of them are enemies and
antagonists of nature, especially the purgatives.... Do not despise any
cure of which you hear, for often results may be achieved by simple
means which you could not accomplish with a multiplicity of
prescriptions and medicines.... Reassure and encourage the patient with
the prospect of recovery, even if you are not sure of it, for thus you
will strengthen his nature. ~Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, translated,
quoted in A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History
by Bernard Lewis, 2000
Our Creator has given us
five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a
sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
~Bernie Siegel
Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin
One
thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and
doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to
death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.
~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, March 1861
Human
misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We
confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing
seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are
afraid of. ~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1861
Now, I
stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and
establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare?
With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and
hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself
in the form of disease. ~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, March 1861
Every
one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a
chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like
vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it
contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or
change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it
can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be
changed. ~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1861
After I
found that mind was matter, I found that ideas were matter condensed
into a solid called disease, and that this, like a book, contained all
the wisdom of its author. Seeing the book,—for sight with Wisdom
embraces all the senses,—I open it, and see through it. To the patient
it is a sealed book; but to Wisdom there is nothing hid which cannot be
revealed or seen, nor so far off that it cannot be reached. So I read
the contents of the book to the patient, and show that it is false.
Then, as the truth changes his mind, light takes the place of the
darkness, till he sees through the error of disease. The light of Wisdom
dissipates the matter, or disease, the patient once more finds himself
freed of opinions, and happiness is restored. ~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby,
August 1861
Disease is the misery of our belief,
happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or
misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery comes from our belief, and
not from the thing believed, it is necessary to be on the watch, so as
not to be deceived by false guides. Sensation contains no intelligence
or belief, but is a mere disturbance of the matter, called agitation,
which produces mind, and is ready to receive the seed of error. Ever
since man was created, there has been an element called error which has
been busy inventing answers for every sensation. ~Phineas Parkhurst
Quimby, September 1861
Man is made of
opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other
lives before him.... Man goes on developing error upon error till he is
buried in his own belief.... It is the office of wisdom to explain the
phenomena in man called disease, to show how it is made, and how it can
be unmade. This is as much a science as it is to know how to decompose a
piece of metal. ~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, December 1861
It
may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The
fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and
stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces
everything man has made or ever will make. ~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby,
1865
Without discipline in spiritual pursuits,
the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with
the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a
small bulb—it is bound to explode. ~Swami Sivananda Radha
The
stars swirl downward from the blissful heavens, energy of the universe
heals around me, exploding into life, drifting into calmness, and
nothing else matters. ~Terri Guillemets
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. ~Buddha
