Symptoms Quotes

• We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

  Alfred Adler

  Use, Patient, Neglect

  Alfred Adler (1964). “PROBLEMS OF NEUROSIS: A BOOK OF CASE HISTORIES”

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• Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

  John Brown

  Mother, Body, Tongue

  Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction

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• Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

  Jacques Lacan

  Believe, Want, Irrational

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• The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Knowledge And Power, Diversity, Dying

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• We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

  Christopher Reeve

  Time, Moving, Health

  Christopher Reeve Testimony, www.chrisreevehomepage.com. April 14, 1999.

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• Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

  James Hillman

  Expression, Soul, Myth

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

  Paul Ryan

  Class, Roots, Growth

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Insane, Asylums, Illness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Fierce, Tire

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.368, Library of America

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• Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

  Darrell Hammond

  "Darrell Hammond Book: Comedian Reveals Childhood Abuse, Psychiatric Treatment". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

  Pink

  Suicide, Cutting, Two

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• we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Real, Enemy, Energy

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• Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Healing, Emotional

  "Gabrielle Bernstein Interviews Marianne Williamson: Sister Giant". Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Stupidity, Lasts

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• There are so many symptoms of this disease it's hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology - on the way water moves around the planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Moving, Water, Looks

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Your opinions are your symptoms.

  Tom Stoppard

  Opinion

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour & Professional Foul”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.

  Deepak Chopra

  Faith, Meaningful, Destiny

  "Stop Worrying, Start Living: A Guide for the Spiritual Worrier/Warrior". Book by Caroline Ravenall, 2012.

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• Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  School, College, Vitality

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

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• Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.

  Coleman Young

  Blood, Racism, Racist

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• All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spiritual, Children, Compassion

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• Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Disease, Contemplation

  Characteristics

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• Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness, sometimes as an excuse for not really being able to do what we really want to be doing. Work addiction is a symptom not of working your brains out but of your brain working you out. Why are you doing what you're doing for a career and how do you like doing it? Do you like your answer?

  Paul Pearsall

  Careers, Addiction, Brain

  Paul Pearsall (1988). “Super joy: in love with living”, Doubleday Books

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• To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Lying, Health

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• We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Betrayal, Hate

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