Health
Quotes - It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning
“I
am not my body. My body is nothing without me.”
―
Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll
“The
First wealth is health.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Freedom
from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are.
It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love
and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)”
―
Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“I
was able to shake off the near-death experience, and whether it was true or
not, I was able to use it as some sort of moral validation as to the importance
of my existence, or at least the importance of me completing this job, because
clearly God, the universe or whoever understood that there was no other human
being alive on this earth stupid enough to take this job.”
―
DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
“An
over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
―
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
“If
we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin
creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are
stuck with.”
―
Deepak Chopra
“Elsewhere
the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and
exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole
we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even
more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked
with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and
some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians
and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores. ”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
“Let's
say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo
Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis
Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a
quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have
to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its
children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of
about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war,
suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years.
Heaven
watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks
'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene,' and the best way to do this
would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less
literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for
example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization.
Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It
can't be believed by a thinking person.
Why
am I glad this is the case? To get to the point of the wrongness of
Christianity, because I think the teachings of Christianity are immoral. The
central one is the most immoral of all, and that is the one of vicarious
redemption. You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as
scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same
desert. I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I
love you very much. I can volunteer to do that. I can't take your sins away,
because I can't abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so.
Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption.
There very probably, in fact, is no redemption at all. It's just a part of
wish-thinking, and I don't think wish-thinking is good for people either.
It
even manages to pollute the central question, the word I just employed, the
most important word of all: the word love, by making love compulsory, by saying
you MUST love. You must love your neighbour as yourself, something you can't
actually do. You'll always fall short, so you can always be found guilty. By
saying you must love someone who you also must fear. That's to say a supreme
being, an eternal father, someone of whom you must be afraid, but you must love
him, too. If you fail in this duty, you're again a wretched sinner. This is not
mentally or morally or intellectually healthy.
And
that brings me to the final objection - I'll condense it, Dr. Orlafsky - which
is, this is a totalitarian system. If there was a God who could do these things
and demand these things of us, and he was eternal and unchanging, we'd be
living under a dictatorship from which there is no appeal, and one that can
never change and one that knows our thoughts and can convict us of thought
crime, and condemn us to eternal punishment for actions that we are condemned
in advance to be taking. All this in the round, and I could say more, it's an
excellent thing that we have absolutely no reason to believe any of it to be
true.”
―
Christopher Hitchens
“I
could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health.
Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.”
―
John Waters
“It's
a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make
is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.”
―
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
“One
of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process,
was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they
needed someone like me to show them what can be done, together.”
―
DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
“Each
patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
―
Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient -
Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
“When
I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per
week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
―
DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
“...compulsive
eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those
of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in
what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any
longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the
simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day.”
―
Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“True
discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is
necessary.”
―
Charles Eisenstein, The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish
the Natural Self
“Eat
healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.”
―
Jean-Pierre Barral
“Whenever
I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a
death.”
―
Phil Lester
“If
you are a future donor recipient, remember: your family should be a part of
your transformative journey. Both parties will experience growth as they find
balance in your new life stage.”
―
Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants,
Transition and Transformation
