Herbert M. Shelton Quotes

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• Life should be built on the conservation of energy.
• Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation,…
• Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than…
• In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
• The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.
• There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.
• If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being,…
• What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both…
• We cannot be damaged into health.
• At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.
• Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.
• A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are…
• So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of…
• Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.
• Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.
• There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a…
• Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is…
• An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.
• These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the…
• I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that…

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