“[N]o matter how much effort we expend, not everything is potentially within our control, not even our own bodies and minds.
[...] The body - or, to use more cutting-edge language, the "mindbody" - is not a smooth-running machine in which each part obediently performs its tasks for the benefits of the common good. It is at best a confederation of parts - cells, tissues, even thought patterns - that may seek to advance their own agendas, whether or not they are destructive of the whole.”
Source: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
“Ali ipak uz mene se može, mada je neobično,
Sa mnom je opasno hteti, ja nikad ne odustajem.”
“Suppose that preventive care uncovered some condition that would require agonizing treatments or sacrifices on my part - disfiguring surgery, radiation, drastic lifestyle limitations. Maybe these measures would add years to my life, but it would be a painful and depleted life that they prolonged.”
Source: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
“Uniform application of laws may be as dangerous as administering all prescribed medicines to every person in a society irrespective of his health condition.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“The health of the society is only a reflection of the health of the individual.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“Electric power is like good health: When you have it, you don't think about it. When you don't have it, that's all you think about.”
“The more we see health as a practice rather than as a problem to fix, the more we encourage the body’s natural potential to be healthy.”
Source: The Art of Health: Simple and Powerful Keys for Creating Health in your Life
“One of the biggest things that hold men back from being the fathers, husbands, and leaders they are meant to be is that we are often unfit, unhealthy, or otherwise limping along.”
“The philosopher who travels the world in order to learn must put up with all customs, all religions, all kinds of weather and climate, all beds and all kinds of food, and leave to the voluptuous, indolent man in the capital his prejudices...his luxury...that obscene luxury that, as it never contains any real needs, creates artificial ones every day at the expense of fortune and health.”
Source: Virtue
“It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.”