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It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.
— Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
— Henry David Thoreau
Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance.
— Henry David Thoreau
The natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day.
— Henry David Thoreau
I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.
— Henry David Thoreau
At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.
— Herman Melville
Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
— Michelle Obama
I come from the era when that continental stuff, the skimmed yogurt and a croissant, was a healthy start to the day.
— Bob Mortimer
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
— Jimmy Carter
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
If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
— Henry Cloud
A study found exercise may be bad for your health. Which means I'm not fat, I'm just morbidly over-healthed.
— Stephen Colbert