The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the

health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903 Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948 The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~Author Unknown Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979 In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown

The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing Your mind they'll ease Your will they'll mend And charge you not a shilling. ~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990 He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ~Leon Eldred Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown

Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert Ingersoll Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~Elbert Hubbard People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~Laurence Sterne To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe, 1800 A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. ~Napoleon I The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. ~Alison Rose Levy, "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002 Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ~Thomas Browne When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. ~Terri Guillemets What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860 Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Terri Guillemets We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~Cicero I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. ~B.K.S. Iyengar Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. ~Charles Simmons Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.) ~Juvenal The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality. ~Dr Ron Spallone, denverchiropractor.com The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb Nature does require Her time of preservation, which perforce I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal Must give my attendance to. ~William Shakespeare Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~Josh Billings Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. ~Leo Tolstoy

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. ~Thomas Dekker, Westward Ho, 1604 Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. ~Martin H. Fischer Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~Terri Guillemets A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. ~Francis Bacon An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~Franois Duc de la Rochefoucauld From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health

than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. ~Author Unknown Every man's disease is his personal property. ~Alonzo Clark Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind supports the body too. ~John Armstrong I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932 Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. ~Joseph Addison A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. ~Kin Hubbard Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. ~Aldous Huxley The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932 I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. ~Charles Dickens

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. ~Jules Romains, Dr. Knock, 1923 After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. ~Friedrich Nietzsche The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. ~Charles Dickens Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. ~Martin H. Fischer Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. ~DeForest Clinton Jarvis Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere

Confidence and hope do more good than physic. ~Galen Live in rooms full of light Avoid heavy food Be moderate in the drinking of wine Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water Change surroundings and take long journeys Strictly avoid frightening ideas Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements Listen to music. ~A. Cornelius Celsus Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977 Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891 First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H. Fischer

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964 If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749 Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. ~Sydney J. Harris

My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin 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 Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~Joey Adams Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~Cher There are really only two requirements when it comes to exercise. One is that you do it. The other is that you continue to do it. ~The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes by Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, Stephen Colagiuri, Alan W. Barclay There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. ~Thomas de Quincey The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and

mental states. ~Carol Welch A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down." ~Rita Rudner I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. ~Marsha Doble A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ~A.A. Milne I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres Commit to be fit. ~Author Unknown It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero The only valid excuse for not exercising is paralysis. ~Moira Nordholt, feelgoodguru.com My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit. ~Phyllis Diller Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps. ~Author Unknown Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out. ~Norman Mailer

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. ~Author Unknown An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school. ~David Walters I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ~Alec Yuill Thornton Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. ~John Dryden People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. ~Christiaan Barnard I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. ~Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise. ~Author Unknown You can cheat on your boyfriend or girlfriend but not on your workout. ~Author Unknown I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. ~Barbara Ehrenreich Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. ~Robert M. Hutchins

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ~Cicero My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~Plato Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. ~C. Jeff Miller In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ~Martin H. Fischer Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. ~William Osler It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~Author Unknown Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ~Robert Burton I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ~James H. Boren A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ~Francis O'Walsh Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies? ~E.Y. Harburg, "A Nose Is a Nose Is a Nose," 1965 I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~Bill Walton It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ~Thomas

More, Utopia [sic] I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. ~Finley Peter Dunne You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. ~Martin H. Fischer Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit - Life! ~Emily Dickinson It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. ~A. Benson Cannon A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. ~Author Unknown One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying. ~Author Unknown A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~Voltaire A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console

yourself to this, get out of the profession. ~Martin H. Fischer It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. ~J.J. Walsh Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~Henri Amiel Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. ~Don Herold The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake! ~Martin H. Fischer The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. ~Elbert Hubbard When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is - if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. ~Nicholas de Belleville Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. ~William Shakespeare I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. ~Betsy Salkind Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ~Peter Mere Latham

In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ~Author Unknown Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~Jean Martin Charcot, translated from French I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. ~Martin H. Fischer The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. ~Alexander of Tralles Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it. ~Author Unknown A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb Treat the patient, not the Xray. ~James M. Hunter God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted. ~Robert Owen Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. ~Roul Turley

The hospital is the only proper College in which to rear a true disciple of Aesculapius. ~John Abernethy A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ~Martin H. Fischer Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. ~John Dryden Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ~James Bryce, 1914 It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. ~John Brown The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? ~Martin H. Fischer Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases. ~Karl Marx A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ~Harvey Cushing Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid, Tristia As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. ~Charles V. Chapin Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes

Until a physician has killed one or two he is not a physician. ~Kashmiri Proverb No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. ~Martin H. Fischer To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. ~Henri Amiel Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And give it us for keeps. ~Pam Ayres When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping. ~Martin H. Fischer It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient. ~William Withey Gull It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician. ~William Cullen, Practice of Physic The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. ~William Withey Gull A Short History of Medicine 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."

1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root." ~Author Unknown When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. ~Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge, 1962 Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. ~Wilfrid G. Oakley Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. ~Peter Mere Latham Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. ~Warfield Theobald Longcope Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. ~Jan King Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ~Erma Bombeck You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. ~Alonzo Clark Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. ~Martin H. Fischer

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ~William Osler Anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly sack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease. ~Mark Twain If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb When you treat a disease, first treat the mind. ~Chen Jen Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. ~John Brown 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 Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. ~Auckland Geddes, The Practitioner Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverb Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. ~Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. ~Ecclesiasticus 38:4 A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report. ~Author Unknown

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ~John Diamond The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. ~Ivan Illich Patients may recover in spite of drugs or because of them. ~J.H. Gaddum He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ~Benjamin Franklin Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. ~Martin H. Fischer The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines. ~Grey Livingston The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct. ~Samuel J. Meltzer Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. ~A.B. Christie Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself. ~Martin H. Fischer On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. ~Martin H. Fischer The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. ~James B. Herrick

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. ~Author Unknown Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. ~Charles Churchill Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trimfigured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ~Logan Clendening Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here. ~Author unknown, attributed to both Dan and Barbara Hladio and Thomas Boyadjis, Sr. 'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. ~Ovid 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are develping a vaccine. ~Jim Carrey And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet. ~William Ernest Henley For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It's about time we brought some balance back to the scale. ~Claire Todae You have two chances - one of getting the germ and one of not. And if you get the germ you have two chances - one of getting the disease and one of not. And if you get the disease you have two chances - one of dying and one of not. And if you die - well, you still have two chances! ~Author Unknown A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. ~Martin H. Fischer The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the

incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. ~William Stewart Halsted The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. ~Martin H. Fischer To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. ~Horace Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ~Martin H. Fischer Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. ~Mortimer Collins One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov, Ivanov Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. ~Giorgio Baglivi Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 he body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. ~Jim Rohn Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~Henry Miller Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. ~Henry David Thoreau

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. ~Osbert Sitwell The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. ~D.H. Lawrence To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories Scars are tattoos with better stories. ~From a Toyota advertisement in Sports Illustrated magazine, 3 June 2002 The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie, L'Homme Machine Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~Irene Claremont de Castillejo Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. ~Montaigne Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ~Samuel Johnson The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. ~B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners. ~William Shakespeare A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. ~Llewelyn Powers Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley The body never lies. ~Martha Graham Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ~William Osler Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ~Frank Gillette Burgess What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. ~Thomas Jefferson Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery. ~Martin H. Fischer Make your feet your friend. ~J.M. Barrie The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time. ~Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Our feet are our body's connection to the earth. ~Andrew Weil Sometimes your body is smarter than you are. ~Author Unknown [T]he way he treats his body, youd think he was renting. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. ~Bertha Stuart Dyment Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ~Pablo Casals A woman is as young as her knees. ~Mary Quant It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ~Marcel Proust What fools indeed we morals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery! ~John Kendrick Bangs

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. ~Hermann M. Biggs In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. ~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle The body is a bundle of careful compromises. ~Randolph Nesse and George Williams, Why We Get Sick Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Most guys aren't that picky. They may have quicker reflexes around large breasts, but they need more to keep them interested. We know plenty of women whose sex appeal makes their breasts exactly the right size. ~From "The Playboy Advisor," Playboy magazine, March 2004, in answer to the question, "If you have small breasts, how do you make yourself look sexy? Most guys want girls with large breasts." We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts. ~Martin H. Fischer The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ~W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~Ken Wilbur I use the word "fat." I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight. There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a

misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat! ~George Carlin Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? ~Jason Love We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. ~William Godwin You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. ~Frederick Alexander Lindemann I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. ~Zacharty Bercovitz A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ~Christopher Morley The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ~Maria Montessori Your heart knows not how to lie. It is great that it lays deep in your chest and not in your mouth. ~Kak Sri We don't stop at our skin. ~Dolores Krieger, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Skin does not equal sin. ~Author Unknown Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. ~Charles Caleb Colton

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. Doherty I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S Truman A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ~Paul Eldridge When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ~Vilfredo Pareto It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ~Mark Twain Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~Antisthenes Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abb Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928 I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~Mohammed Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~Willa Cather There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ~George Herbert Palmer Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~Vernon Howard Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~Martin H. Fischer No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language,

science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. ~Martin H. Fischer Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~Russell Hoban You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ~H.G. Wells I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. ~H.G. Wells The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Learning without thought is labor lost. ~Confucius The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels. ~Martin H. Fischer The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ~Henry S. Haskins We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~Lloyd Alexander You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan

Staying Motivated... ...is key to achieving your goals. If you are just starting out, the changes to your lifestyle can seem overwhelming. The following tips can help you stick to your fitness program: 1. Begin slowly. Even though you're anxious to get moving and see results, your body needs to adjust to your new routine. Make sure you begin every workout with some stretching exercises to warm up. Then start off with 30 minutes of cardio - walking, biking, hiking or a low-impact exercise class. Gradually increase your workouts as your endurance increases.

2. Visualize your success! Every day take time for yourself to visualize your new healthier, happier self. Close your eyes, relax and picture yourself at your desired weight, and feel how happy you will be when you finally achieve that goal. Many athletes use visualization techniques to achieve their goals and you can do the same. 3. Keep Help Handy. Keep a collection of motivational quotes or an inspirational book handy. When you are tired or feeling low, reading these can be the jump-start you need to get back on track. 4. Stay Balanced. You will be more successful with your diet and exercise program if you gradually incorporate these changes into your lifestyle. If you skip a day of exercising or go off your diet occasionally, don't overreact. Just get back on track the next day and continue with your fitness goals. Keep going and you will be successful!

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it!" - Margaret Thatcher

5. Make it fun! Try walking with a friend for conversation and mutual support. If you exercise at home, consider this time for yourself. Put on your favorite music while you workout. You'll feel more energized for a great workout! The more enjoyable your fitness program is, the more likely that you'll keep it up. 6. Only weigh yourself every week. It's hard to notice daily changes, and makes the focus on losing weight, instead of on improving fitness and feeling healthy and happier. You may not see a change right away, but dont get discouraged! Keep focused on your exercise and workouts and it won't be long before you see results. 7. Listen to your Body. Try to exercise at the time of day that works best for you. If you are a "morning person" get up 1/2 hour earlier and do your workouts in the morning when you energy is at peak level. Night owls would probably do better to exercise in the evenings. Work with your own personal body rhythm to keep your enthusiasm up. 8. Consider a Personal Trainer. A personal trainer can really help keep you on track. Most fitness centers have personal trainers on staff who can create a basic exercise and diet plan for you. If you don't belong to a fitness center, many personal trainers will work with you on a oneon-one basis.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in not giving up." - Tommy LaSorda "Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Foster C. McClellan "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln "If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." - Walt Disney "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean "People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." - Earl Nightingale "And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses "Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." - Braveheart "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills "Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine "Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." - Leon J. Suenes "Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize." - Norman Vincent Peale "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." - Norman Vincent Peale he thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche * The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. Sir Philip Sidney * Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable. Carl Ransom Rogers * Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn * 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

* People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. James J. Walsh

* A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past Nathaniel Hawthorne * 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 * There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Mother Teresa * He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. Benjamin Franklin * A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck * His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Oliver Goldsmith

* Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Dr.Karl Menninger * The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. Harry J. Johnson * A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. Joan Welsh * To get rich never your risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker Half the costs of illness are wasted on conditions that could be prevented. Dr. Joseph Pizzorno

* The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. Thomas Jefferson

* Press on- nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge * The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come. C.S. Lewis * Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton * There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements. Anonymous * Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, nonstop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. Brian Tracy * Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." Alfred North Whitehead

* You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson * You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. Robert Collier * Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. Jean-Paul Sartre

* There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in selfforgetting. Dr. Theodor Reik * Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George Smith Patton, Jr. * Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. Frederick Pierce

* The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Napolean Hill * A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. William Sharp * Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand * We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. Eric Hoffer * Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit. Hugh Nibley * Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement. Leo J. Muir To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. Anonymous

* My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. Helen Hayes * No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake * Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden * This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis

* The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Anonymous * Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius * We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. General Dwight David Eisenhower * What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements. Benjamin F. Fairless * Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. Bruce Barton

* Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford

* Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden * Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Alva Edison * When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. Orison Swett Marden * Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan * The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful." Alfred Adler * Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation. Jack Niklaus * Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George Smith Patton, Jr. * What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements. Benjamin F. Fairless * It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. Vince Lombardi * If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty. Heber J. Grant * Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. Anonymous

* Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. Gian-Carlo Menotti * Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert Francis Kennedy * Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. Frank Clark * Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. Anonymous * I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso * The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller * A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Wendell Holmes

* The only way around is through. Robert Frost * I have searched for many years for the definition of Success, in the context of leading a successful life. It turns out that there are as many definitions as there are seekers and that success lies as much in the attempt as in the achievement. Anonymous * Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Niccol Machiavelli * Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H. L. Hunt * Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you

seek. Mario Andretti * We will either find a way, or make one. Hannibal Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. Buddha quotes You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) Similar Quotes. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) Similar Quotes. About: Life quotes. Add to Chapter