Sickness Quotes - Page 7

• I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Interesting, Facts, Easier

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• Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

  Osamu Dazai

  Addiction, Spirit

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Despair

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• You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

  Linus Pauling

  Disease, Nutrition, Wellness

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• Without an adequate supply of micronutrients, not only are we less likely to sleep deeply, recover briskly from exercise, ward off sickness, and fully exploit our brainpower, we get hungry. And we stay hungry.

  Brendan Brazier

  Sleep, Exercise, Adequate

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• Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill [...].The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Pain, Philosophical, Healing

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• In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

  Chath Piersath

  Fate, Voice, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.

  Jessie Pavelka

  World, Cures

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• There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Instinct, Swiss

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.29, Penguin

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• It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

  Thomas More

  Wise, Medicine, Wish

  Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville (2008). “Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

  Huston Smith

  Distraction

  "Remembering Huston Smith, Noted 'World's Religions' Scholar". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wvik.org. January 4, 2017.

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• One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

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• Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Running, Husband

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard G. Callaway (2006). “The conduct of life: a philosophical reading”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Concerning B12, 39% of Americans have a B12 deficiency yet only 1% of Americans are vegan. How can this be a vegan issue? And if nearly everyone in America is sick or has died from a disease, yet only 1% is vegan, how can sickness be a vegan problem?

  Gary Yourofsky

  America, Issues, Sick

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The last thing our country needs is four more years of Barack Obama, believe me. I've seen first hand the corruption and the sickness that has taken over our politics. You've seen it and I've seen it and we're all watching together.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Taken

  Source: time.com

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• Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your grace by sin; but never, never will I lose my hope in You. I will cherish it unto that dreadful moment when all hell will be unchained to snatch my soul away. "No one has hoped in the Lord and has been confounded"

  Claude de la Colombiere

  Mean, Men, Grace

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• If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.

  Ken Wilber

  Healing, Compassion, Opportunity

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.162, Shambhala Publications

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• Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

  Epictetus

  Responsibility, Choices, Body

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

  Annie Wersching

  Good Night, Running, Sleep

  "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Party, Politics Today, British Politics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

  Samuel Daniel

  Love Is, Woe, Plant

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.105

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• Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight into death, but now, as she lay against the pillar, she saw it differently. She thought she'd been surviving. She thought that she'd been fighting for herself. But all she'd done was create more killing, and in the end it had all led to this moment, where they bargained with a demon ... not for their lives, but for their souls

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Stupid, Fighting, Doctors

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• The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.

  Rumi

  Grief, Medicine, Essence

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.227, Penguin UK

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Two, Giving

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