Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
How can a relationship stay warm with just the body, when the heart is absent?
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.