Short lines on the body, rest and illness, from physicians and writers. Several well-known health proverbs are credited here to the proverb, not to the famous person usually blamed for them.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Mahatma Gandhi · Health

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.

Naval Ravikant · Health

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn · Health

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Health

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 druther not.

Mark Twain · Health

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin · Health

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Joseph Pilates · Health

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Robert Urich · Health

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Arabian proverb · Health

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Proverb · Health

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama · Health

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby · Health

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.

Carol Welch · Health

Mental health is not a destination, but a process.

Noam Shpancer · Health

The mind and body are not separate. What affects one, affects the other.

Anonymous · Health

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden · Health

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison · Health

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought, they must be earned.

Naval Ravikant · Health

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

B.K.S. Iyengar · Health

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

Jack LaLanne · Health

If you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

Karyn Calabrese · Health

You can't enjoy wealth if you're not in good health.

Wayne Dyer · Health

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson · Health

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Benjamin Franklin · Health

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.

John Steinbeck · Health

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy · Health

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