“The first wealth is health.”
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“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
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“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
“Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”
“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.”
“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.”
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
“Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.”
“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”
“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
“There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.”
“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.”
“The wish for healing has always been half of health.”
“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.”
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”
“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”
“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”
“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”