"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. "
— Dave Barry

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
— Winston S. Churchill

"There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!"
— Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives)

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."
— Tricia Cunningham

""It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.""
— Erich Fromm

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"
— Hippocrates

"The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health."
— Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays) Screenplay based on the book)

"No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!'"
— Tricia Cunningham (The Reverse Diet: Lose 20, 50, 100 Pounds or More by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner)

""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"
— Wayne Fields

"Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good."
— Theodore Kaczynski

"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."
— Tom Stoppard (Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play)

"Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages."
— Louis Pasteur

"But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation."
— Harry S. Truman

"If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it hanging down. Your leg will swell and heal slower, if at all. When you go to your doctor, he/she will give you one of those "you're really dumb and self destructive" looks. Also, "Why didn't you follow my orders and rest?" Your doctor will be right, and so will mine at my next office visit. Elevate, folk! Elevate your mind, your soul, and your leg, in the order needed!"
— Sandy Nathan (Numenon)

"Life is a tragedy of nutrition"
— Arnold Ehret (Definite Cure of Chronic Constipation Also Overcoming Constipation Naturally)

"Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy."
— Dean Karnazes (Ultramarathon Man)

"A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. "
— Pema Chodron (The Places that Scare You)

"Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously."
— Jean-Pierre Barral

"Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane."
— Philip K. Dick (VALIS)

"I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it."
— Mark Twain

"I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me "smoking can cause fatal lung cancer"."
— Robert Clark

"...A person who is headstrong enough to open their eyes and their heart to the full depth and weight of the world is inviting in everything out there - both evil and good, both dark and light, and the sheer bravery of that openness enables them to gain profound insight into the human condition. It also fucks them up. It may even make them more prone to stick their head in an oven than to engage in self-promotional chitchat on Jay Leno."
— Patricia Pearson

"If someone says, "You can make it!" down a vertical mountain when you don't ski very well, think about it before launching. This can be a turning point in your life. It sure was in mine when I slammed into the mountain.

I wish I'd said, "F'getabout it, sucka," and gone to the Kiddie Corral. Would have saved a lot of pain and surgery.

Think about this. What are you really up for? Is the thrill worth the cost?"
— Sandy Nathan (Numenon)

"When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room."
— Sandy Nathan (Numenon)

"I always take it Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it."
— Mark Twain

"In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never."
— Ellie Krieger (The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life)

"[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis."
— Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories)

"I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup."
— Fannie Flagg

"Save the Planet...Buy Organic"
— Rev. Dr. Nancy Philips

"La santé est une propriété permanente, potentiellement mesurable par la capacité de l'individu à se remettre des agressions, qu'elles soient chimiques, physiques, infectieuses, psychologiques ou sociales."
— J. Ralph Audy

"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times."
— Carl Jung

"The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century"
— Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories)

"Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protection."
— Harry S. Truman

"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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— Erica Jong

"1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight."
— Mark Bittman (Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes)

"orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano."
— Decimus Junius Juvenalis

"Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases."
— Robert Sears (The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child)