2,950 Quotes About Health

At the moment, when we do an intervention we do a small intervention and when we're done, we pull out and it can't be sustained. We have to look at this as a public health issue and people haven't been doing that.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

We want to be at a point where we can play 10 guys. We're getting close. I don't know when we'll come together, but we're getting close. We've got to get through some conditioning and health issues before that happens.

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.