Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.

                        —Margiad Evans

The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused, while nature heals the disease.

                                     —Voltaire

We are not responsible for our illness, we are responsible to them, to what they offer and require of all of us, sick and well alike.

                                    —Kat Duff

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

          —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

                        —Erma Bombeck

[In sickness] your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

                     —Norman Cousins

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

         —Oliver Wendell Holmes

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

                            —Irish proverb

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

                               —Pam Brown

Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.

                              —Mark Twain

The sad truth is that there is no point to getting sick when you’re a grown-up. You know why? It’s because being sick is about you and your mother... Without that solicitous hand on your forehead, there is no one to confirm that you are really sick.

                                —Adair Lara

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

                             —Adelle Davis

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

     —George Dennison Prentice

If you trust Google more than your doctor, then maybe it’s time to switch doctors.

—Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

          —Rabbi Harold Kushner