Reads tagged with “health”
The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
“People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too.”
The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.”
The Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty: How Founding Father Benjamin Rush Revolutionized Our Understanding of Mental Health
“How wonderful is the action of the mind upon the body! Of the body upon the mind!”
The Island of the Colorblind: Oliver Sacks on the Dignity of Difference
On the redemptive acceptance of the terminally ill as “a living part of the community.”
Cycling as a Cure for Creative Block: A Charming 1926 Case for Why the Bicycle Is the Ideal Vehicle for Writers
“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
Keats on Depression and the Mightiest Consolation for a Heavy Heart
“I am now so depressed I have not an Idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness it does not take away the pain of existence…”
Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism
“By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system.”
How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Extraordinary Diary of Alice James, William and Henry James’s Underappreciated Sister
“It is the most supremely interesting moment in life, the only one in fact when living seems life.”
What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.”
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