I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
- George Bernard Shaw
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
- Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
—Chinese Proverb
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
—Henry David Thoreau
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
For life is not to live, but to be well.
— Martial
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
- Samuel Butler
Wishing that each day brings your renewed strength, brighter times, and a healthier, happier you. Get well soon.
- Proverb
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
- Finley Peter Dunnen
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
- Flip Wilson
No sickness can keep you down with all the prayers I offer for your recovery. Rise up and be strong!
- W. Root
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert Ingersoll
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
- Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Fear knocked on my door I opened it and there was nobody there.
C. Williams
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
– Japanese Proverb
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Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
- Nursery rhyme
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Time is the best doctor.
- Yiddish Proverb
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
- Orison Swett Marden