Sick Quotes - Page 19

• There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Culture, Phenomenology, Personal History

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.39, Macmillan

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• You may think that you are well, but you will not secure health until you think thoughts that produce health. You may persistently affirm that you are well, but so long as you live in discord, confusion, worry, fear and other wrong states of mind, you will be sick; that is, you will be as you think and not what you think you are. You may state health in your thought, but if you give worry, fear and discord to that thought, your thinking will produce discord. It is not what we state in our thoughts, but what we give to our thoughts that determine results.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.294, Penguin

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• How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

  Ruby Wax

  Brain, Body, Organs

  "What's so funny about mental illness?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

  Kelly Braffet

  Nature, Sense Of Humor

  Kelly Braffet (2012). “Josie and Jack: A Novel”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Real, Air, Shoes

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• Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.

  Mother Teresa

  Baby, Children, Home

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• Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Joy, Catholic

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Dinner

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• I'm so sick of the words 'gay' and 'lesbian'. They're just people... One day I want my son to come home from school and be like, 'I found this guy, and I love him.' And I'm gonna be like, 'Yes, you do, and that's ok.'

  Josh Hutcherson

  Home, School, Son

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• I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

  Diego Rivera

  Atheist, Good Friend, Order

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• The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

  George Walter

  Fool, Wells

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• In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Horse, Writing, Years

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• I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Pain, Years, Giving

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• Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.

  Gore Vidal

  Christian, Pain, Hate

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• It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

  John Masefield

  Home, Navy, Yards

  "Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont".

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• The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous-you attract more of all of those things.

  Esther Hicks

  Lonely, Loneliness, Positive Thinking

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• You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

  Nas

  Rap, Sound, Like You

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Elephants, Wildlife

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• Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Get Better, Cost

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• The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

  Francois Rabelais

  Evil, Would Be, Monk

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

  Brian Carter

  Health, People, May

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• Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Wicked, Comfort, Sometimes

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Dallaway (1817). “The Works: I. Letters, during her residence abroad, 1746-1756”, p.151

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• The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Skeletons, Lunch

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869”, p.235, Univ of California Press

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• I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Thinking, America, Suffering

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• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

  Tom Harkin

  America, People, Waiting

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