Rowan Williams Quotes

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

Nobody should live in an environment that's not healthy.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

These actions will not make people as happy as happy hours do, but they will help keep them alive.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

At 87, I have to keep moving because, if I sit down, you never know what might happen.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged?

If I was diagnosed with something that was fatal in the next couple of years, I can't imagine anything more terrifying. And so for me, we know a lot about technology and we know a lot about the world, but I think health is the one area where there's so much data, but it's chaotic and that it's still a big black box. So, understanding really what is going to make me healthy and what is going to allow me to live the longest life is definitely keeps me up.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

All things human change.