What They Say About Health

The best six doctors anywhere

And no one can deny it

Are sunshine, water, rest, and air

Exercise and diet.

These six will gladly you attend

If only you are willing

Your mind they'll ease

Your will they'll mend

And charge you not a shilling.

~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only,
but the mind and spirit as well;
...and not today's pain or pleasure alone,
but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~ James H. West

If you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

I saw a few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. ~ Edward Smith-Stanley

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.  ~ Francis Bacon

Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant. ~ Bill Phillips

Our bodies are our gardens; our wills are our gardeners. ~ William Shakespeare

How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday. Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple. ~ Jack Lalanne

A healthy outside starts from the inside. ~ Robert Urich

The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together. ~ Kurdish Saying

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~ Jean Baptiste Moliere

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. ~ John Steinbeck

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. ~ Carl Jung

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat,
can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. ~ Deepak Chopra

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~ John Muir