“When the breath wanders, the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed, the mind too will be still.”
Hatha Yoga Pradipika

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HEALTH
Read the best health quotes on wellness, healing and healthy living from Hippocrates, Charaka, Thiruvalluvar, Gandhi, William Osler and more. Words to inspire a healthier life.
“When the breath wanders, the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed, the mind too will be still.”
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”
William Shakespeare
“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.”
William Shakespeare
“Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it.”
Francis Bacon
“As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy, anxious fears, anger fretting inwards, joys and exhilarations in excess, and sadness not communicated.”
Francis Bacon
“Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend.”
John Dryden
“Exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions without which the body cannot subsist.”
Joseph Addison
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”
Florence Nightingale
“Care more particularly for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease.”
William Osler
“Variability is the law of life.”
William Osler
“A smile will gain you ten more years of life.”
Chinese Proverb
“Feed a cold and starve a fever.”
English Proverb
“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him.”
The Bible (James 5:14)
“Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 6:20)
“He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.”
The Bible (Psalm 34:20)
“By surfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed prolongeth his life.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 37:31)
“Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”
The Bible (Psalm 42:11)
“And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine.”
The Bible (Luke 10:34)
“Wilt thou be made whole?”
The Bible (John 5:6)
“Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health.”
The Bible (Acts 27:34)
“Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 11:10)
“And I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”
The Bible (Exodus 23:25)