Hippocrates

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bond to one another."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

"The natural state of body is one of perfect symmetry and balance."

"Cowards may die many times before their death; the valiant taste death but once."

"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future."

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."

"Walking is man's best medicine."

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."

"The greatest medicine of all is teaching people not to need it."

"Disease of the mind is far more dangerous and terrible than bodily disease."

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."

"Keep watch over thyself, lest thou shouldest be like the hypocrite."

"The patient must combat the disease along with the physician."

"Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small, daily sins against Nature."

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings."

"Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, commit themselves to its practitioners, it is at present far behind all other arts."

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start with nature, with an open mind."

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."

"Everywhere the same; birth, growth, and decay."

"Understanding of the elements is the foundation of the art of healing."

"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison."

"The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well."

"Our life is short, and the Craft so long to learn."

"Wherefore, if one is to think and speak as a sensible person, these fundamental principles must be understood from the very first."

"A man may be said to be in a kind of debauchery if he should drink when not thirsty as well as eat when not hungry."

"Healing is an art, and as in all arts, the artist must be thoroughly trained and disciplined."

"The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts."

"To know is one thing merely, and to know for sure is another."

"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler."