Quotes About Sickness And Health

When facing sickness, it can be helpful to find inspiration and comfort in the wise words of others. Here are the top 99 quotes about sickness and getting better:

1. “The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
2. “Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.” – Anne Wilson Schaef
3. “The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise, and diet.” – Wayne Fields
4. “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” – World Health Organization
5. “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” – Voltaire
6. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
7. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
8. “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” – John F. Kennedy
9. “To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha
10. “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.” – Mary Oliver
11. “When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.” – Augusten Burroughs
12. “A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” – Tom Stoppard
13. “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer
14. “The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” – Thomas A. Edison
15. “The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.” – Hippocrates
16. “Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” – Franklin P. Adams
17. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
18. “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.” – B.K.S Iyengar
20. “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.” – Mark Twain
21. “Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy.” – Bella Bleue
22. “The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.” – Robert C. Peale
23. “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb
24. “The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.” – Hippocrates
25. “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates
26. “The more you know about your body, the better you can take care of it.” – Dick Gregory
27. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
28. “It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.” – Edward Abbey
29. “True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” – William Penn
30. “The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, ‘If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.’ Now I say, ‘I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'” – Jim Rohn
31. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
32. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
33. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
34. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
35. “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
36. “It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
37. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
38. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
39. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
40. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
41. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
42. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
43. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
44. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
45. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
46. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
47. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
48. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” – Unknown
49. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
50. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
51. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
52. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
53. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
54. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
55. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
56. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
57. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
58. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
59. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
60. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
61. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
62. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
63. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
64. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
65. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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