Health Care Quotes

• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Recovery, Nursing

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Nurse

  Tristia

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• In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

  Bernard Lown

  Art, Views, Listening

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• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

  Tom Harkin

  America, People, Sick

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• I think basic disease care access and basic access to health care is a human right. If we need a constitutional amendment to put it in the Bill of Rights, then that's what we ought to do. Nobody with a conscience would leave the victim of a shark attack to bleed while we figure out whether or not they could pay for care. That tells us that at some level, health care access is a basic human right. Our system should be aligned so that our policies match our morality. Then within that system where everybody has access, we need to incentivize prevention, both for the patient and the provider.

  David Katz

  Thinking, Care, Patient

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Health, People

  Speech, 24 July 1877

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• Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.

  Edward Kennedy

  Reality, Priorities, Care

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• The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Powerful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jul 28, 2011

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• The best doctor gives the least medicines.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

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• There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Health, Men

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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• Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

  Mitt Romney

  Health, Opportunity, Choices

  Mitt Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.npr.org. September 3, 2008.

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• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Hilarious, Health

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• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  James H. Boren

  Humorous, Medicine, Medical Bills

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• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

  Carl Jung

  Life And Love, Inspiration, Health

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Health, Air

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• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Inspiration, Health

  "Pray It Forward:daily Meditations". Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.

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• You're going to die sooner.

  Tom Coburn

  Care, Dies

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. April 8, 2010.

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• I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Believe, Cutting, Medicine

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• [The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so they can impose their socialist 'utopia' of higher taxes, restricted access, inferior quality, and deadly inefficiency on the best health care system in the world....You and the RNC are all that stand between the Democrats' scheme to take more of your hard-earned income to pay for this unsustainable, freedom destroying entitlement and an opportunity to work for real, truly bipartisan step-by-step solutions.

  Michael Steele

  Real, Opportunity, Quality

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• The groundwork of all happiness is health.

  Leigh Hunt

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  The Indicator No. XXXI, 'On the Realities of the Imagination'

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• As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Care, Affordable

  "Obama offers vision, while Dems offer laundry list" by Art Levine, www.motherjones.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Work, Home, Poor Education

  "A Prayer for America". Book by Dennis Kucinich, 2003.

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• Health care's a great example. We spend billions of dollars a year in foreign aid helping people in countries where the money never gets to see the bottom tier, because the bad, corrupt politicians in the government that they have there end up taking what we give them.

  Toby Keith

  Country, Giving, People

  Source: www.ocregister.com

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