50 #Quotes On #Health

TheBreakaway | BreakawayConciousness
Zy Marquiez
May 15, 2017

Having recently done some research on health after some unforeseen circumstances, and after finding some noteworthy quotes in some books about optimal health, I thought it prudent to share the quotes I have collated overtime.

Most quotes are directly related to health, while others could be applied indirectly.

“Natural Forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
– Hippocrates

“Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
– Voltaire

“He who takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skill of the physician.”
– Chinese Proverb

“One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive.  The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive.”
– Hieroglyph In Egyptian Tomb

“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
– Thomas Fuller

“Leave your drugs in a chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
– Hippocrates

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.  If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
– Buddha

“The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
– Ann Wigmore

“Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.”
– Dalai Lama

“Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.”
– John H. Tobe

“It is increasingly observed that the majority of pharmaceutical drugs, even those believed to have minimal adverse effects, such as proton-pump inhibitors and anti-hypertensives, in fact adversely affect immune development and functions and are most likely are deleterious to micribiota.”
– Stig Bengmark, MD, PhD, “Gut Micribiota, Immune Development and Function,” Pharmacological Research 69 (March 2013): 87-113

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
– Thomas Edison

“Learning is the beginning of wealth.  Learning is the beginning of health.  Learning is the beginning of spirituality.  Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”
– Jim Rohn

“You can’t poison a body into wellness.”
– Catherine J. Frompovich

“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”
– Ivan Illic 

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.”
– Irish Proverb

“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”
– Dr. Allen Frances, author of Saving Normal

“Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.  There are a great many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food…stay away from these.”
– Michael Pollan, “Unhappy Meals,” New York Times, Jan 28, 2007

“Pharmaceutical treatment has, thus far, failed to inhibit the tsunami of endemic diseases spreading around the world, and no new tools are in sight.  Dramatic alterations, in direction of a paleolithic-like lifestyle and food habits, seem to be the only alternative with the potential to control the present escalating crisis.”
– Stig Bengmark, MD, PhD, “Gut Microbiota, Immune Development and Function,” Pharmacological Research 69 (March 2013): 87-113

“I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Muriel Strode

“Probably as much as 75% of the medicine of sickness is unnecessary and its cost can be avoided.”
–  Dr. Ghislaine Lanctot, Author Of The Medical Mafia

“In fact, I am certain, there has never been a doctor anywhere, at any time, in any country, at any period in history who ever healed anything.  Each person’s healer is within.”
– Marlo Morgan, Mutant Messages Down Under

” One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
– William Osler, M.D.

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
– William James

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
– Gandhi

“Laughter is the best medicine.”
-Proverb

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

“It is not an exaggeration to say that gut health is everything.  The health of your gut has a profound effect on your overall health.”
– Sarah Ballantyne, Ph.D., The Paleo Approach

“Improving the quality, duration, and timing of your sleep is one of the single most powerful interventions you can make to improve your health.”
– Chris Kresser, Your Personal Paleo Code

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.”
– Plato

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading.  I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Sickness comes on horseback, but departs on foot.”
– Dutch Proverb

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius

“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering – an image of death.”
– Buddha

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
-Voltaire

“We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle

“I think it’s absolutely criminal to give mercury to an infant.”
– Boyd Haley, Ph.D., Chemistry Department Chair, University of Kentucky

“The first wealth is health.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.”
– Common Sense

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
– Proverb

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food.”
– Hippocrates

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to profoundly sick society.”
– Krishnamurti

“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.”
– Shakespeare

“From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.”
– Catalan Proverb

“He who takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skill of his doctors.”
– Chinese Proverb

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Zy Marquiez is an avid book reviewer, researcher, an open-minded skeptic, yogi, humanitarian, and freelance writer who studies and mirrors regularly subjects like Consciousness, Education, Creativity, The Individual, Ancient History & Ancient Civilizations, Forbidden Archaeology, Big Pharma, Alternative Health, Space, Geoengineering, Social Engineering, Propaganda, and much more.

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