• 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

• If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. -Elbert Hubbard

• 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

• 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. -Peter McWilliams

• To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. -William Londen

• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. -Addison

• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. -Herbert Spencer

• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -Albert Schweitzer

• 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

• Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.

• Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. -Sydney J. Harris