Illness Quotes - Page 29

• Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.

  Thea Bowman

  Want, Approach, Choose Life

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.

  E. O. Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Masters

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• For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

  Hippocrates

  Fitting, Treatment, Extremes

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• Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kind, Mental Illness, Tradition

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• I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

  George McGovern

  Mental Illness, Knows

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• Everyone is a Taoist at heart.  Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice... as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.

  Arnold Mindell

  Philosophy, Heart, Fighting

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• The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.

  Dharma Singh Khalsa

  Cancer, Mutation, Pushing

  Dharma Singh Khalsa (2003). “Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Past, Rome, Cities

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

  Stephen Hawking

  Pain, Thinking, Should Have

  "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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• Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

  Upton Sinclair

  Mean, Voice, Disease

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• Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

  Jerome Frank

  Doe, Spirit, Ministers

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• Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden.

  Ulisses Soares

  Spiritual, Jesus, Emotional

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• ....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Three, Going Out, World

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.178, Penguin

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• Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Anxiety, Bipolar, Resilience

  "Kay Redfield Jamison - A deep love and loss". "All In The Mind" with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. January 15, 2011.

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• Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Struggle, Men

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• There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Blood, Battle, Pressure

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Strong, Stars, Betrayal

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• Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.

  Liz Miller

  Cancer, Heart, Blood

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Practice Of Medicine, Two

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• There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Extra Help, Wind

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

  Abel Ferrara

  Sex, Gambling, Talking

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The surgeon general is responsible for sharing scientifically-based information with the public so that they can improve their health. But I will say personally that my goal as surgeon general is to help build a culture of prevention in America so that we are a nation that is as good at preventing illness as we are at treating it.

  Vivek Murthy

  America, Goal, Information

  "Not My Job: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Gets Quizzed On 'General Hospital'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 25, 2015.

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• People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.

  H. A. Berlin

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit from the illnesses of others. I say medical care is too important to be left to the failed central plans of the political class. And as for profiting from providing medical care, we can never be reminded enough that in a free society, a profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Class, People, Political

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Spiritual, Eye

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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