Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, as a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty and mastery beyond human conception, and so delicate and frail that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought, may injure it.
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From Nikola Tesla’s “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” published in The Century Magazine in June 1900, reproduced by PBS. This quote about self-care, health and appreciation of the human body appears in Tesla’s discussion of hygiene and protecting well-being.