Sickness Quotes - Page 20

• Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Long, Healthy

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• The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Baby, Pain

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.96, Penguin

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• I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it - because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death. And I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me - but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Song, Laughter

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• After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

  Horace Mann

  Children, School, Two

  Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.365

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• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Science, Average

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.100, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Morning, Night, Sick

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Emotion

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

  David Lloyd George

  Age, Unemployment, Four

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• Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Ignorance, Thrive

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• The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Rising Up, Feet

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

  Jim Whittaker

  Nature, Pain, Mountain

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• How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

  Charles Lamb

  Health, Men, Self

  'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'The Convalescent'

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• Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

  Howard Nemerov

  Time, Children, War

  1960 New Poems,'The View from an Attic Window'.

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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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, Sick

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• It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey

  Pregnancy, Insult, Imagine

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165

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• Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Joy, Woe

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 255

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• There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

  Russell Simmons

  Sadness, Mind, Causes

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• I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

  Brian Carter

  Health, Perfect, Wish

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• Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Motivational, Reality, Emotional

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• People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead.

  Marian Keyes

  Running, Cancer, Differences

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• I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

  Lauren Oliver

  Dust, Feelings, Way

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• At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

  John Green

  Dawn, Tonight, Good Times

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.70, A&C Black

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• Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Fighting, White

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• I’d had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it’s not until something pretty major happens that you’re like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.

  Tori Spelling

  Morning, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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