Illness Quotes - Page 17

• I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Thinking, People, Maintenance

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• Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

  Jack Kornfield

  Philosophy, Medicine, Waiting

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• Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Science, Would Be, Research

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• The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cancer, Serious Illness, Negative

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• When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially. I am thankful for everything I have spiritually. I thank God for allowing me to experience these things, even the experiences that may not seem so positive, such as developing an illness. I may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that comes from everything.

  Betty Eadie

  Morning, Self, New Day

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• For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Practice

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• I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

  Lois Lowry

  Brother, Thinking, Doctors

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• Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Perfection, Sometimes

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• People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.

  Francis Collins

  Jobs, Cancer, Heart

  "Bob Abernethy’s interview with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health". www.pbs.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.

  Leigh Newman

  Brother, Moving, Book

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• Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Long Ago, Snakes, Insane Person

  Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”

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• It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.

  Paul Waldman

  Government, Serious Illness, People

  "The health care reality conservatives ignore" by Paul Waldman, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2013.

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• ... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Sick, People, Forever

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Powerful, Passion, Medicine

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• The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Diagnosis, Patient

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• Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Health, Needs

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.35, Hay House, Inc

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• The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Heart, Health

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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• Calcification is the hardening of body tissues by calcium salts or deposits. Although calcification itself is not considered a disease, it has been shown to be a significant contributing factor in nearly every known illness and aging condition, including heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, chronic inflammation, arthritis, cancers, cataracts, eczema, psoriasis, and even wrinkles.

  David Wolfe

  Cancer, Heart, Wrinkles

  David Wolfe (2013). “Longevity Now: A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Hormones, Detoxification, Super Immunity, Reversing Calcification, and Total Rejuvenation”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

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• Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.

  Samantha Abeel

  Depression, Lonely, Mean

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• Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.

  Melissa Brown

  Letting Go, Father, Moving

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• Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.

  Duncan Long

  Mistake, Spring, Creativity

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• This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

  Sidney Jourard

  Health, Loss, Self

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• We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

  Michael Crichton

  Disease, Causes, Responsible

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.94, Vintage

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• Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Loneliness, Men, Rejection

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