Health Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi has the most entries, then Thomas Jefferson, Paul of Tarsus and Athanasius of Alexandria. For sources, Addison’s Spectator (1711) has health and cheerfulness begetting each other, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra (1883) finds more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy, and John Muir’s The Yosemite (1912) says everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
“A room without books is like a body without a soul” is credited to Cicero and disputed. The notes say a 2011 post found the exact wording in an 1886 essay by Sir John Lubbock, who wrote that Cicero had described a room without books as a body without a soul. A line about dying of a misprint in a health book is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed, and a passage credited to Gurdjieff is flagged too.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Christ's gospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased.
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.
If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.