Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
– Author Unknown
Such deeds as thou with fear and grief Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall, In youth and health eschew them all, Remembering life is frail and brief.
– Mahabharata
The first wealth is health.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose.
– Paul Tsongas
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
– Will Durant
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
– Ralph Emerson, Nature: Addresses and Lectures
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
– Sir Philip Sidney
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.
– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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.
– Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . .
– Thomas Jefferson
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
– Charles Caleb Colton
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
– Omar Khayyam
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.
– Mark Twain
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
– Gustave Flaubert
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
– Og Mandino
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
– C. C. Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
– English Proverb
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
– John Dewey
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.
– Orison Swett Marden
