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“I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.”

Ifs Giving Believe Inspiration I Believe Health Listening Healthy Capable Health Care

Author:Pedro Martinez

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”

“But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.”

People Ifs Care Millions Health Cost Consequence Increase Health Care Reports Margins

Author:Barack Obama

“At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.”

Ifs Needs Ends Night Voice Sleep Issues Emotional Health Health Care The End Of The Day Right Place Emotional Health Barometer

Author:Mehmet Oz

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

Ifs Food Health Healthy Disease Anxiety Diets Perpetual Tedious Healthy Eating Healthy Diet Eating Healthy Food

Author:Alexander Pope

“If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.”

Ifs Matter Feelings Health Feel Good Health Care Treatment

Author:Robin Wright

“The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.”

“We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Government Care Health Listening Towns Meetings Health Care Engaged Halls Submit Representatives Constituents Takeovers Government Takeover

Author:Paul Ryan

“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?”

Ifs Life Giving May Persons Ends Inspirational Life Health Calling Health Care

Author:Clara Schumann

“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.”

Ifs Years Care Next Strong President Share Health Fairs Safety Workers Health Care Budgets Indispensable President Bush Advocacy Fair Share

Author:Arlen Specter

“If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.”

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Author:Lewis Black

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”

Source: The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

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Book:The Pocket Rumi

Source: The Pocket Rumi

“We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.”

People Ifs Life Giving Believe Stills Past I Believe Wish Health Healthy Thanks Filmmaker Celebration Neurotic Mourn Tombs Cemetery Graveyard Celebrate Life Squat Day Of The Dead

Author:Clive Barker

“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

“I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.”

Ifs Way Littles Running Too Much Air Health Ordinary Breathe Intense Health Care Couches Fresh Air Sluggish Ultra Marathon

Author:Dean Karnazes

“I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.”

Ifs Health Fit Ultimate Suicide Horrible Health Care Hissy Fits

Author:John Waters

“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”

“If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.”

Ifs Pain Time Health Waste Doctors Wander

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

Author:Mae West

“If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.”

Ifs Food Inspire Willing Health Cooking Settling Culinary Funny Inspirational Junk Junk Food Health Food Fresh Food Raw Food

Author:Sally Edwards

“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.”

“Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.”

“I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.”

“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.”

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.”

“If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.”

“If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.”

Ifs Numbers Health Surprise Illness Cooks Wellness Fitness Malady

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”

“Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.”

Ifs Mind Body Health Bears Blessing Wellness Nutrition Mind And Body Health And Wellness Natural Health Nutrition And Exercise

Book:Parochial and Plain Sermons

Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons

“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

Ifs Men Way Values Poor Rich Health Exercise Healthy Finance Health Care Rich Man Abstinence

Book:The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

Source: The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

“Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.”

Ifs Helping Health Preserves Cherish Unstable Staying Young

Author:George Carlin

“If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.”

Ifs Way Health Disease My Way Catching Donation Get Well Organ Donation Get Well Soon Well Soon

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.”

Ifs May Littles States Moments Poverty Society Crime Ignorance Health Becoming Universal Adversity Misery Obstacles

Book:The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

Source: The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”

“If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.”

Ifs Years Firsts Children Doe Two Health Thousand Damage Two Years Conception Healthcare Nutrition Adequate Irreversible Two Year Olds World Health

Author:Josette Sheeran

“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

“Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.”

Ifs Believe Would Be Care Community Health Circumstances Disease Independence Competition Be Good Profession Absence Health Care Organized Canada Ministry Public Health

Author:William Osler

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

Source: Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel

“Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.”

Ifs Way Humans Doe Mankind Human Nature Health Healthy Demand Saint Excitement Right Way Thrilling

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!”

Ifs Men Mind Body Health Victory Exercise Healthy Defeat Ill Illness Manage Diets Healthy Body Healthy Mind Ill Health

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

“You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.”

“Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?”

Ifs Want Joy Fun Healing Health Eating Self Improvement Boundaries Weight Loss No Boundaries

Author:Tom Hanks

“If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.”

Ifs Asks Healing Health Perfection Healed

Book:The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.”

Ifs Thinking Men States Moral Health Ill Wellness Health And Wellness Ill Health

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?”

Ifs Inspiration Care Motivation Suffering Can Do Compassion Health Train Good Health Care Healthcare Providers

Author:Joan Halifax

“The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.”

Ifs Might Able Blood Health Type Doctors Lifestyle Health Care Instruction Minimum Living My Life Good Health Disruption Leukemia Meds

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.”

Ifs Men Different Science Learning Study Health Healthy Sick Technique Rats Insects Pigeons Sick Man Vertebrates

Book:Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas

Source: Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas