Introduction

• I’ve loved quotes for a long time and have been collecting quotes that have made an impression on me for at least the last 5 years. I agree with Adam Grant when he said of quotes and aphorisms, “they’re memorable and They give meaning and direction. They spur new thoughts or new actions—or remind us to revisit old ones.”
• The quotes we love and remember are those that we feel speak directly to us, they transcend the individual context in which we see them and provide us a nugget of insight of knowledge we can take forward and apply more broadly to other aspects of our lives.
• The construction of the quote also plays a big part on which quotes last for generations while others, which have the same core message or meaning, are quickly forgotten. For example, a study in 2000 found that people preferred rhyming quotes.
• While I’ve been collecting quotes for a number of years, it wasn’t until recently that I decided to organise them into different themes. The primary driver for doing this was I realised that because my list was so long there were quotes which I’d forgotten about, but when I rediscovered them still strongly resonated with me. Therefore, I thought that grouping the quotes into themes would (a) give me the opportunity to revisit all the quotes I’d captured and (b) help me find the ‘right’ quote I need depending on the motivation, meaning and direction I need in a particular moment.
• After a lot of thinking and testing different ways to categorise the quotes, I came up with the following 7 themes. You won’t be surprised that these themes align closely – although not directly – with the topics of this blog.
  1. To Live A Good Life
  2. Success
  3. Health & Nutrition
  4. Investing & Money
  5. Appreciation & Acceptance
  6. Action & Ownership
  7. Miscellaneous

• I will post a blog on each of the above themes in a 7 part series on ‘My Favourite Quotes’. This is the third blog post in this series focused on Health & Nutrition. For the rest of the posts in the series, please click on the relevant hyperlink above. There is no requirement to read the series in order, just dive into the area which appeals most to you right now.
• You’ll notice when reading the series that each theme has a number of topics, this helps me, and will hopefully help you, find the quotes which best apply to what you’re searching for.
• There is no particular order to the quotes within the themes or topics, I considered ranking the quotes within topics but realised that would be an impossible task. For me, it’s about having a catalogue of quotes available to support me, different quotes will be more applicable in some moments than others.
• I am very aware of how often quotes are misattributed. It’s almost as if when people are in doubt of the attribution of a quote, they assign it to Einstein, Twain, Shakespeare or Edison. I have done my best to attribute quotes correctly, however I cannot be 100% certain, so I apologise in advance of any misattributions.
• I hope you find this series useful, and as a collector of quotations, please include any quotes you love in the comments!

Top Quotes for me right now on Health & Nutrition

Medicine

• ‘Let food be thy medicine’ – Hippocrates
• ‘The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.’ –  Ann Wigmore
• ‘The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system’ – Robert C. Peale
• ‘Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.’ – English Proverb
• ‘Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.’ – John H. Tobe

Longevity

• ‘It’s what you do right now, today, that determines how your mind and body will operate, ten, twenty, and thirty years from now.’ – Warren Buffett
• ‘Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.’ – Jim Rohn

Lifestyle / Freedom

• ‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.’ – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• ‘He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.’ – Arabian Proverb
• ‘We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.’ – George Mallory
• ‘Be healthy, wealthy & wise’ – Tim Ferriss — Adapted from: “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise” – Benjamin Franklin

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