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“If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.”

Ifs I Can Ends Remember Fall Perfect Happened Health Buddhism Boards Athletics Diving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.”

Ifs Want Should Mean Feelings Happens Age Fall Courses Work Figures Health Offers Husband Sick Intention My Husband Retiring Bob Going Out Going To Work

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.”

Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

“The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.”

Men May Soul States Body Seems Fall Passion Perfect Danger Health Fit Sickness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”

“Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.”

Ifs Two Would Be Pain Fall Our Lives Alive Advice Information Emotional Health Messages Lovely Categories Emotional Pain Mental Pain

Book:Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”

Fall Health Healthy Falling In Love Health Care

Author:Alain de Botton

“Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.”

Men Beautiful Fall Perfect Common Cases Poet Health Beats Dare Shocked Veins Shrinks Joints Surgeons Spine Rapture Falling Off Warts

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.”

May Seems Spiritual Fall Passion Health Ill Stable Good Health Liable Carried Away Spiritual Health

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.”

Fall Social Class Health Rate Improvement Inequality Mortality Decline Social Inequality

Author:Michael Marmot