Health Quotes

"In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image."

"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies."

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

"I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them."

"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."

"Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'"

"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

"When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction."

"Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."

"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."

"The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings."

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."

"Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me."

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

"Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math."