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“I stand before you a totally healthy person.”

Persons Health Healthy Health Care Healthy Person

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.”

People Causes Health Disease Lays Medicine Notion Medical Germs

Author:E. Cheraskin

“As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means”

Giving Mean Long Nature Healing Health Constitution Harmony Healed Ayurveda

Author:David Frawley

“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.”

Heart Eye Enjoy Results Practice Conditions Health Becoming Healthy Breathing Touching Liver Peace And Happiness Toothache

Book:Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living

Source: Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living

“You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.”

Knows Body Health Machines Definitions

Author:Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

“Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.”

Men Made Use Health Illness

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.”

Men Mind Body Health Healthy Resourceful Healthy Body Docile

Author:Thales

“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.”

Men Humans Ideas Evil Health Misery Errors Arise

Author:Phineas Quimby

“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.”

Men World Form Fighting Tree Rocks This World Health Disease Roots Errors Strikes Warfare Stand Alone I Stand Alone

Book:The Quimby Manuscripts

Source: The Quimby Manuscripts

“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.”

Men Made Ideas Matter Courses Names Belief Changed Health Chemicals Vegetables Minerals

Author:Phineas Quimby

“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.”

Men Mind Has Beens Matter Belief Answers Watches Produce Ready Health Depends Disease Elements Misery Errors Mere Busy Seeds Guides Sensations Deceived Inventing Disturbance Agitation

Author:Phineas Quimby

“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.”

Knows Men Made Shows Life Is Belief Opinion Know How Pieces Health Goes On Office Disease Errors Developing Buried Metals Warfare

Author:Phineas Quimby

“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.”

States Body Spiritual Lying Values Given Behinds Compassion Health Disease Messages Cells Visible Lacking Severe Symptoms Without Love Imbalance Spiritual Values Sending A Message

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.”

Knows Matter Spirit Health Doctors

Author:William Saroyan

“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.”

Source: The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community

“Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.”

Successful Health Doctors Cooks Preserves Latter Always Working

Author:Denis Diderot

“The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.”

Found Levels Healing Health Function

Author:Rudolph Ballentine

“It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.”

Health Disease Preserves Strict

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.”

Ifs Men Literature Can Do Health Intelligent Fasting

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?”

Tree Flower Health Allergies

Author:Yip Harburg

“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.”

Moments Eye Health Cold Red Ears Green Noses Throat Temper Deaf Joints Damp

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.”

Seems Faces Possibility Position Health Rational Overwhelming

Author:John Diamond

“Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.”

“First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.”

Ifs Firsts Effects Health Treats Medicine Patient China Lifestyle Cures Chinese Diets Treatment Healthy Lifestyle Medication Modification Healthy Eating Alternative Medicine Acupuncture

Author:Sun Simiao

“What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?”

Way Order Sex Health Following Proof Arise Torture Permit Mates Cosmic Genes Humankind Tribes Viruses Irresponsibility Hypnotic Following Orders

Book:Self-consciousness: memoirs

Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs

“While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.”

Healing Health Ego Patient Entanglement

Author:Carl Jung

“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.”

Ifs Eye Pleasure Honest Tears Health Hair Collars Sensational I Am Pretty

Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.”

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.”

Self Healing Health Miracle Patient Yield Physicians Self Healing

Author:Vernon Howard

“The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.”

Self Healing Health Disease Mechanism Power Of Nature

Author:Rene Dubos

“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.”

Firsts Stories Literature Progress Health Addiction Medical Recognition Spells Drunkenness

Book:Getting Well

Source: Getting Well

“The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.”

Young Consciousness Health Wellbeing

Book:The Elder Statesman

Source: The Elder Statesman

“On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.”

“It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.”

Humans Human Beings Pieces Health Distortion Verge Disloyal Flapping

Book:Aspects of Biomedical Science Policy

Source: Aspects of Biomedical Science Policy

“I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.”

Thinking Young Rich Health Healthy Concepts Invention Smoking Extensions Be Young Yuppies

Author:Frank Zappa

“Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.”

Reality Eye Views Doors Health Healthy Ears Illness Point Of View Pathos Activate

Author:Jean Houston

“The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.”

Long Has Beens Real Values Health Scientist Defined Chemicals Long Ago Units Precise Pills Vitamins Intangible

Author:Florence King

“Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.”

May Care Health Take Care Serving God Take Care Of Your Health

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.”

Way Health Highest Ideals Medicine Endure Speed Harm Medical Cures Gentle Healthcare Restoration Trustworthy Chiropractic Homeopathy

Book:Organon of the Rational Art of Healing

Source: Organon of the Rational Art of Healing

“To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.”

Mind States Taken Health Preserves Permanent Consideration State Of Mind Good Health

Book:The Book of the New Moral World: Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society

Source: The Book of the New Moral World: Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”

Love Should Humans Human Beings Food Inspire Health Cooking Intimate Culinary Chef Food Love Funny Food Comfort Food Fresh Food I Love Food Sharing Food

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.”

Awareness Health Drink Saint Jars

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.”

Way Doe Different Health Normal Opposites Sick Patterns Different Ways Sickness Latter

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.”

People Important Health Important Things Population Proportion Things In Life Most Important Things In Life

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.”

People Mind Health Concepts Good Health

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.”

World Wells Stills Ability Moral Modern Health Activity Everyday Illness Absence Defined Well Being Dimensions Modern World Positively World Health

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.”

Facts Health Civilization Disease Highest Standards Claims Western Compelled Disturbing Western Civilization

Author:Rene Dubos

“Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.”

Real Individual Term Ability Groups Health Disease Function Defined Attributes Acceptable Physiological

Author:Rene Dubos

“One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.”

May Wonder Health Becoming Superiors Pretense Aberration

Book:Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change

Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change

“Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.”

Ifs Knows Giving Wells Values Individual Lost Nations Numbers Materials Health Population Scales Convenient Salesman Large Numbers Yardsticks Health And Life

Author:Karl Evang