I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

If you would live healthy, be old early.

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

A healthy family is sacred territory.

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don?t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

The first wealth is health.

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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

I row after health like a waterman...

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Health food makes me sick.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Health is worth more than learning.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want. Since the great majority of people do not feel worthy and deserving of abundant good fortune, radiant good health and total success in all areas of their lives that overriding thought pattern controls the results people get. The first order of business of anyone who wants to enjoy success in all areas of his
her life is to take charge of the internal dialogue they have and only think, say and behavior in a manner consistent with the results they truly desire.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

Good friends are good for your health.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.