The Healthy have many wishes,
But the Sick have only ONE wish.
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
- Tim Hansel
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
- Albert Einstein
"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. We are at our best when we give the doctor within each patient a chance to go to work."
- Albert Schweitzer
"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
- Linus Pauling
Smart is believing only half of what you hear,
brilliant is knowing which half to believe.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine,
But will interest his patients in the care of the human frame,
In diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The work of the doctor will, in the future,be ever more that of an educator, and ever less that of a man who treats ailments.
-Lord Horder
For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write,
but those who can’t learn, unlearn and relearn.
A man is only as old as his arteries.
-Dr. William Osler
First do no harm….
Let your food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.
The human body, though untaught, will always find balance.
-Hippocrates
Add life to your years, not just years to your life.
Health is not for a chosen few, but for the few who have chosen.
Eat to live not live to eat. Many dishes, many diseases.
-Ben Franklin
Doctors give drugs of which they know little,
into bodies, of which they know less,
for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
- Voltaire
The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
-Albert Einstein.
Never, no never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another.
-Johann Christolph Frederick von Schuller
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".
-Bronwyn Hancock
The germ is nothing; the soil is everything.
-Louis Pasteur
One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive.
The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive.
Yesterday's "no" can be today's "yes".
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you’, that would suffice."
- Johannes "Meister" Eckhart
"prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone."
–oath of Hippocrates
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
-Benjamin Franklin
Many choose the path of ignorance,
for knowledge demands responsibility.
Many, otherwise educated,
choose ignorance in matters of health.
The price of a food is inversely proportional to its nutritional value.
Health Knowledge that works is never out of date, be it 10 or 100 years.
Nutrient therapy increases individual resistance to disease. Drug therapy generally lowers resistance to disease.
A vitamin can act as a drug, but a drug can never act as a vitamin.
Most non-accidental illness is due to malnutrition.
"The best prescription is knowledge."
- C. Everett Koop, Former US Surgeon General
Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a Gift.
“Never waste your time worrying.
95% of what we worry about never happens anyway,
and the 5% that does, we can't do anything about."
- 100-year-old retired teacher NY
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
- Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity."
- Bruce Barton
Only living bodies have symptoms. Where there are symptoms, there is life.
While there is life, there is hope. And something you can do about it.
"All drug doctors are quacks."
- Benjamin Franklin
“We have to live life forwards, but can only understand life backwards.”
To avoid being victimized by false hopes or unrealistic fears,
we need to search out reliable information and live by it.
“All I want to know are God’s thoughts, the rest are just details.”
- Einstein
“The laws of science are the thoughts of God”
- Florence Nightingale
“There is enough in the world for everyone's need,
but not enough for everyone's greed ”
- Frank Buchman
What makes life worthwhile?
…To live….To love…To learn
To leave a legacy.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!
In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is GOD who gives us light.
- Augustus Hare (1792-1834)
"People spend half their life spending all of their health to acquire wealth and the second half of their life spending MORE THAN their wealth trying to get their health back."
Thought for the Day: "You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
- Ziggy