Pain (any pain—emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
—Rabbi Harold Kushner
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
—Redd Foxx
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
—Robin Norwood
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
—Scott Westerfeld
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
—Unknown
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
—Unknown
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
—Virgil
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
—Charles Caleb Colton
One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat.
—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
America's healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
—Walter Cronkite
Now and then, at the sulfur baths, I meet a perfect specimen of health and vitality who was given up by the doctors years ago. They all tell the same story; they forgot their ailments, they ignored them, they found something to do—something of a serviceable nature—which made them forget themselves.
—Henry Miller
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
—Unknown
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
—Sophia Loren
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
—Alexander Woollcott
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.
—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life