Ayurvedic Quotations and Quotes

Ayurvedic Quotations Plus Related and Inspirational Quotes

Presented by Shankar

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A good digestion turneth all to health. ~ George Herbert

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A man has often more trouble to digest food than to get it. ~ Proverb

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A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man – he must view the man in his world. ~ Harvey Cushing

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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. ~ Hippocrates

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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~ Ovid

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Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practiced not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular. ~ Henri de Mondeville

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~ George Bernard Shaw

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Don’t ask the doctor, ask the patient. ~ Yiddish proverb

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Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition. ~ Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O.

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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. ~ Seneca

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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~ Mother Teresa

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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. ~ Hippocrates

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Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion. ~ Lin Yutang

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He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. ~ Chinese Proverb

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

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Health is the proper relationship between microcosm, which is man, and the macrocosm, which is the universe. Disease is a disruption of this relationship. ~ Dr. Yeshe Donden, physician to the Dalai Lama

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I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~ Sydney Smith

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I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food. ~ Linus Pauling, Ph.D.

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I love the sweet smell of dawn – /our unique daily opportunity to smell time,/to smell opportunity – /each morning being, a new beginning. ~ Emme Woodhull-Bache

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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies, and so a man. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. ~ John Milton

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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. ~ Deepak Chopra

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. ~ Victor Hugo

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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. ~ Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)

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It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control. ~ Oprah Winfrey

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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food. ~ Hippocrates

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Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food. ~ Hippocrates

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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. ~ Maimonides

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Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food. ~ Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)

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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~ Marcus Valerius Martial

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Man is ill because he is never still. ~ Paracelsus

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May today mark the beginning of many new joys and accomplishments… and a continuation of all of the good things that you have already achieved. ~ Author Unknown

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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopeia. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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Men of lean habit of body are commonly a long time healthy, having good appetites and strong stomachs for digestion. ~ Tobias Venner

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Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities. ~ John R. Lee, M.D.

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Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet…. teaching us to root ourselves into the earth…. Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~ Carol Krucoff

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My soul is dark with stormy riot, Directly traceable to diet. ~ Samuel Hoffenstein

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No Illness which can be treated by the diet should be treated by any other means. ~ Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)

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Oh, the powers of nature! She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~ Benvenuto Cellini

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Opposites are cures for opposites. ~ Hippocrates

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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ~ Lin Yutang

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Peace begins with a smile. ~ Mother Teresa

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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ~ Dalai Lama

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Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave. ~ Emile Souvester

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

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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease. ~ Voltaire

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The body is a mandala. If you look into it you see a source of endless revelation. Without embodiment there is no foundation for enlightenment ~ Dr. Tsampa Ngawang

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The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. ~ Deepak Chopra

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The competent physician, before he attempts to give medicine to the patient, makes himself acquainted not only with the disease, but also with the habits and constitution of the sick man. ~ Cicero

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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ Thomas Edison

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabriol

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The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds. ~ Albert Schweitzer

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The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way. ~ Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1844), Founder of Homeopathy

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers ~ Deepak Chopra

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The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~ John Redman Coxe, 1800

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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. ~ Ecclesiasticus 38:4

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The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself. ~ John Knowles

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The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on. ~ Julia Alvarez

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The treatments themselves do not ‘cure’ the condition, they simply restore the body’s self-healing ability. ~ Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O.

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There is nothing either good or bad, But thinking makes it so. ~ Hamlet

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Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~ Carl Bard

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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection ~ Dalai Lama

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We cannot tell what may happen to us in this strange medley of life, But we can decide what happens in us–how we take it, what we do with it–That is what really counts in the end. ~ Joseph Fort Newton

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We do not see things as they are. You see them as you are. When you look, you see reflections of your being. When you listen, you hear echoes of yourself. If you don’t like something about what you see and hear, no point in smashing the mirror, change who you are becoming. ~ Anonymous

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What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning. ~ Author Unknown

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What fools indeed we morals are /To lavish care upon a Car,/With ne’er a bit of time to see /About our own machinery! ~ John Kendrick Bangs

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When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. /When diet is correct medicine is of no need. ~ Ayurvedic Proverb

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When health is absent Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless and Reason is powerless. ~ Herophilies, 300 B.C.

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Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and to sickness, to riches and to poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these things and not another. ~ Richard Bach

You know the drill: An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Yoga is a spiritual practice. Of course, you can practice yoga strictly for its physical benefits, but that’s a bit like traveling to a foreign country known for its native cuisine and eating at the nearest McDonald’s the whole time. A yoga practice fully nourishes by aligning our bodies, minds, and spirits, and to focus solely on the physical practice is to miss a profound opportunity. ~ R.Pacheco

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