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“We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.” Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“I have always believed that exercise is not only a key to physical health but to peace of mind.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“If you mean to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups
“We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and...” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age
“I would give up all the sick days I had left for a few healthy ones.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” John Muir, The Yosemite
“Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.” Linus Torvalds
“And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“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, Following the Equator
“Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital
“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to...” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“There is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural...” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“When I was growing up they used to say, 'Robin, drugs can kill you.' And now that I'm 58, my doctor's going, 'Robin, you need drugs to live.'” Robin Williams, Weapons of Self Destruction
“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper.” Stephen King, The Shining
“It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves with the full belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.” Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species
“But I wrote because I couldn’t stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.” JAY-Z, Decoded

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