There just could not be anything better than inspiration when it comes to health, fitness, and lifestyle.
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. – Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It’s also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be. - Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
Health is not valued till sickness comes. – Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 – 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Be not slow to visit the sick. – Ecclesiastes
I have never cared much for fish – it floats in the belly as much as in the pond. – Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse’s Tale, 2009
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. – Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. – George Dennison Prentice