Candace Bushnell Quotes

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

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

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

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Becoming eighty is a matter of life or death. I chose life. It is a much better position to be in, and it's easier on your back.

All diseases run into one, old age.

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

Health is the first and most important gift of Providence; without it we are poor, miserable creatures, though the whole earth were our property.

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

At the end of the day, health above all.

Getting older doesn't worry me, what does is getting unfit.

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

The first wealth is health.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

I think the most important thing in life is your health. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.