Today we will like to share with you quotes about health and well-being. As they say, you are what you eat. It simply means what you eat affects your health.
Having good health is man’s most precious asset. Not just your physical health, but your mental health as well. good health and a sound mind, always go hand in hand. Without a healthy body, a man can neither think great thoughts nor perform great acts.
Having lot of mental pressures but physically healthy, does not sound good. Being healthy means that both your body and mind function equally well.
Here are some well selected quotations about health and well-being to make you feel good.
“Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.” – Elbert Hubbard
“You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good — but your rich foods block the gods’ answer and tie Jupiter’s hands.” – Persius
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” – Spanish Proverb
“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 rather not.” – Mark Twain
“Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” – Franklin P. Adams
“He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.” – Arabian Proverb
“There’s lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven’t got time to enjoy it.” – Josh Billings
“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice? ” – George Carlin
“The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. ” – Charles Caleb Colton
“The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Health is not simply the absence of sickness.” – Hannah Green
“The oneness of mind and body holds the secret of illness and health. ” – Arnold Hutschnecker
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” – William Londen
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” – Mark Twain
“Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” – Denis Waitley
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise” – Benjamin Franklin
“Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.” – Joseph Addison
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!” – Karl Lagerfeld
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” – Josh Billings
“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.” – Joan Gussow
“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” – Tricia Cunningham
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston S. Churchill
“The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” – Doug Larson
“If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” – Unknown
“Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.” – Lord Chesterfield
“Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.” – Dutch Proverb
“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
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb
“Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.” – Danish Proverb
“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
“If one’s bowels move, one is happy; and if they don’t move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.” – Lin Yutang
“What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.” – Thales of Miletus
“The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.” – Chinese Proverb
“Health is not valued until sickness comes.” – Thomas Fuller
“From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.” – Catalan Proverb
“When the head aches, all the body is the worse.” – English Proverb
“The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” – Chinese Proverb
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – Proverb
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” – Spanish Proverb
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.” – Marcus Valerius Martial
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.” – Buddha
“Happiness lies, first of all, in health.” – George William Curtis (Lotus-Eating)
“Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” – Astrid Alauda
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.” – Joan Welsh
“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” – William Shakespeare
“The best doctor gives the least medicine.” – Benjamin Franklin
“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 rather not.” – Mark Twain
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” – William Londen
Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.” – Jill Johnson
“Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.” – Isaac Bickerstaff
“We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.” – Jerome K. Jerome
“Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men.” – Chinese Proverb
“Prevention is better than cure.” – Desiderius Erasmus
“He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.” – Benjamin Franklin
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” – Joyce Meyer
“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.” – Anne Wilson Schaef
“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” – Thomas Dekker
“The wish for healing has always been half of health.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” – Robert Urich
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