10 Quotes on Health

With Kate’s mother still in hospital as a result of a Christmas Eve fractured hip, thoughts turn to that fragile, all important matter: health. Like most things, we take it for granted until it’s gone.

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To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

- Buddha

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I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

- Denzel Washington

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We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

- Michelle Obama

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When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

- Annette Funicello

(One of the original Mousketeers in early TV show The Mickey Mouse Club and later also successful as an actress and singer, particularly in “beach party” movies, Funicello was diagnosed with MS in 1992 and died in 2013 aged 60 as a result of complications associated with the disease.)

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I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.

- Joan Rivers

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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

- Albert Einstein

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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

- Hippocrates

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Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.

- Author Unknown

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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

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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

- Doug Larson

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