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balto
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 Posted - 11/03/2011 : 20:47:03
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton
There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~Laurence Sterne
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~Cicero
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. ~Leo Tolstoy
Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. ~Martin H. Fischer
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke
To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng
When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. ~Charles Dickens
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond
Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. ~Sydney J. Harris
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pan
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Posted - 11/04/2011 : 04:51:01
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"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown"
...that one summed it up for me perfectly.
Another one I love but don't know originally said it is:
"...don't go to doctors, they diagnose things"
Wake me up with your amphetamine blast
Take me by the collar and throw me out into the world
Rock me gently & send me dreaming of something tender
I was brought here to pay homage to the beat surrender
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2011 : 06:30:34
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| Thanks for those great quotes Balto! Looks like great thinkers have discovered the mindbody/psychosomatic illness relationship through the ages. I'm going to print those out, or maybe tatoo them to the back of my head. |
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balto
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Posted - 04/19/2012 : 19:43:36
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The version found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta:
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
-this version is credited to Mother Teresa
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balto
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Posted - 04/19/2012 : 19:46:05
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“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the **** on.”
¯ Tupac Shakur
I think this would apply to tms/anxiety too. |
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Some quotes on health
