Illness Quotes - Page 4

• Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Needs, Realizing, Strikes

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• There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.

  Allan Lokos

  Stress

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.143, Penguin

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• Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Justice, Diversity, Silence

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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• It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Secret, World

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 28, 2012

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• When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Important, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Marion Fay: Trollope's Works”, p.391, 谷月社

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• I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

  Christopher Titus

  Uncles, Love Is, Drug

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

  Michelle Obama

  Heart, Brain, Legs

  "6 Times Michelle Obama Stood Up For Mental Health" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

  Rebecca Wells

  Gratitude, Believe, Blessing

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• If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

  Bernie Siegel

  Healing, Recovery, Foundation

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Attitude, Driving

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during the debate on the proposed Omnibus bill to decriminalize homosexuality, 1968.

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• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

  Abraham Maslow

  Successful, Men, Psychology

  "Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow".

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• Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

  Hannibal

  Mental Illness

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• Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Achievement, Challenges

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

  Arlen Specter

  Cost, Care, Way

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• I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.

  Ayrton Senna

  Suffering, Cost, Want

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• I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

  Jim Stovall

  Recovery, Healing, Emotional

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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Loss, Luxury

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

  Sarah Lancashire

  Depression, Writing, Twenties

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• Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.

  Margiad Evans

  Inspirational, Adventure, Voyages

  Margiad Evans (1952). “A ray of darkness”

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• Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

  Alan Bennett

  Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Bores

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Untold Stories”, p.473, Faber & Faber

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• To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

  Dale Murphy

  Cancer, Athlete, Fighting

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