Illness Quotes - Page 9

• Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Walking Away, Hiking, Entrepreneur

  Soren Kierkegaard's letter to Henriette Kierkegaard (1847), as quoted in Soren Kierkegaard "Letters and Documents" (translated by Henrik Rosenmeier), www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

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• With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

  Arthur Caplan

  Suicide, Fate, Science

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• Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.

  Michael R. Taylor

  Zero, Safety, Risk

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• For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Meaningful, Pain, Cancer

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• Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

  Steve Schirripa

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.

  Demi Lovato

  Tired, Men, Sick

  Demi Lovato @ddlovato, twitter.com. November 12, 2014.

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• Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Serious Illness

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all living things respond to light. The Almighty has provided everything in nature. Observe nature and you will grow. The cures of all illnesses are found in nature in the shapes of the body parts they were created to cure.

  Suzy Kassem

  Flower, Animal, Light

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• It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Self, Technique, Body

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• I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it's going to hurt everyone around them. I've kept so much inside that I've literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it-- not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.

  Michael Angelakos

  Hurt, Thinking, Medicine

  "Rite of Passion" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com.

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• Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

  Edvard Munch

  Mental Health, Accomplished

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• I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

  Robbie Williams

  Abuse, Mental Illness, Cocaine

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• We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It's a neutral experience is what I'm trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Trying, Different

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• My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Love, Husband, Children

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics

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• Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference between a reaction and a response: You may not have control over your initial reaction to something, but you can decide what your response will be. You don't have to be at the mercy of your emotions, and acceptance can be your first step toward empowerment . . . For me, acceptance has been the cornerstone to my having an emotionally healthy response to my illness.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Teacher, Acceptance, Differences

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of their family, for material prosperity, or to recover from illness. But this way of practicing faith only leads to a dead end. Buddha images should serve as inspirations to cultivate the infinite loving kindness latent in the buddha within us.

  Shinjo Ito

  Kindness, Inspiration, People

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.134

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• Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Psychosis, Violence, Mood

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million people recover from their illnesses.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Two, Medicine, People

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• You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Depression, Heart, Disease

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• ..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Character, Trying

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body well. The more you learn to treat yourself well now, the less treatment you'll need down the road.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Depression, Needs, Body

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Meaning Of Life, Purpose

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

  David Auburn

  Father, Writing, Ideas

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• The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Soul, Skins, Rooms

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Growing Up, Kids

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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