To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what's desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

One can’t have everything in this world; be content with the greatest of joys: health.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Translation: Seize we the sweets of life whene’er we may,
E’en though some bitter taste therein we find,
For ne’er on earth can man know perfect joy.

It's easy to wish for health when you're sick. When you're doing well, you need just as much vigilance.

We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world, a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is worldly strife and constant war;
Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

We are well, Efuru replied. It is only hunger. It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Sleep after Toil, Port after stormy Seas,
Ease after War, Death after Life, does greatly please.

We never taste a perfect joy;
Our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.