The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.
The absence of disease is not health.
When you cry out in pain from a broken wrist, no one questions it. You just go to the hospital and take the necessary steps. Mental illness is just as real, even if it can't be seen.
Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.
I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person. Since then I've taken ill health to be an irritating interruption into what is a fairly reliable stream of good health.
When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
We need a wholesale reevaluation of what health feels like. Most Americans don't even know what that is anymore. I want to tell people, "Listen, there are places where you can focus on your health, and it can actually be simple."
Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.
Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
What does it mean to be healthy? You may think that being healthy means that you are not sick, but being healthy is far more than that. If you feel okay, or average, or nothing much at all, you are not healthy.
My health used to limit me, but now it's sort of an advantage.
Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.
I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind
