Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It’s about being fit for life.
All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
Family, nature and health all go together.
Coronavirus can happen to anyone, so, it’s really important to maintain good health overall. That way, when it hits you, you have an immune system that is strong enough to fight the virus.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.
The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That’s just a story that we tell ourselves.
Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we’ve come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
I take a massage each week. This isn’t an indulgence, it’s an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.
