To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand read more

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom read more

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad read more

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem
hominibus dando.]

Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but
that we read more

Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but
that we become whom we eat.

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life:
brain, blood, and breath. Press the read more

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life:
brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light
goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute,
and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the
lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres
of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.

Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is read more

Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies.