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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. -- Marcel Proust
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. -- George Bernard Shaw
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you. -- Tony Snow
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. -- Jonathan Davis
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. -- Pete Earley
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. -- Martin Seligman
Literature + Illness = Illness -- Roberto Bolano
Illness is the proving ground of friendship. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we -- Sivananda
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite. -- Ivan Turgenev
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. -- Herodotus
Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts. -- Judith Orloff
Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways. -- Susan Minot
Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise. -- Alice B. Toklas
Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts. -- Rhonda Byrne
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible. -- Francoise Sagan
It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness. -- Roni Askey-Doran
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. -- Abbe Pierre
Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life. -- James Holman
I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. -- Marcia Angell
Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path. -- Christiane Northrup
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. -- Maria Edgeworth
Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you. -- Vince Lombardi
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. -- Marcel Proust
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body. -- Jean M. Auel
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. -- Oscar Wilde
Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating. -- Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. -- Paul Bowles
Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick. -- Fran Drescher
Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue. -- Esther Hicks
Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins. -- Ed McCabe
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. -- Susan Sontag
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
People get really irritated by mental illness. -- Maria Bamford
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. -- Norman Cousins
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick -- Ben Jonson
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. -- Fran Lebowitz
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer. -- Jane Pauley
I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956. -- Kenneth H. Cooper
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. -- Anthony Storr
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. -- W. C. Fields
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. -- Richard J. Codey
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. -- Norman Cousins
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. -- Richard Dawkins
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have. -- Nelson Mandela
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. -- Mira Bartok
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt. -- Frank Bruno
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. -- Christopher Hitchens
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. -- Rich Lowry
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. -- Sigmund Freud
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. -- Thomas Szasz
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution. -- Stephen Hawking
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important. -- Jack Layton
Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self. -- Jeffrey Kluger
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. -- Hans Eysenck
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. -- Anais Nin
I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another. -- Roy Blunt
I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health. -- Olivia Newton-John
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment. -- Adam Hamilton
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. -- David Thewlis
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. -- Marcel Proust
I get Tweets every day from people telling me that 'Hey, I'm going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different diseases. I can beat it because Adrian Peterson showed me the determination and the willpower to be able to prosper and get through adversity whenever it comes.' -- Adrian Peterson
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness. -- Carl Honore
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. -- Joko Beck
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. -- Michael Leunig
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken. -- Hoda Kotb
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse. -- Regina Brett
God can cure any illness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a terminal illness. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Spirit is impervious to illness. -- Marianne Williamson
Depression is a physical illness. -- Terry Bradshaw
Art is a kind of illness. -- Giacomo Puccini
Love is a grave mental illness. -- Plato
Our illness is often our healing. -- Mooji
Heart disease is a food-borne illness. -- Caldwell Esselstyn
When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness. -- Harriet Lerner
Nothing more isolating than a mental illness. -- Hannibal
To heal illness, begin by restoring balance. -- Caroline Myss
There is no greater illness than discouragement! -- Yisroel Salanter
Age and illness made one a dualist -- Ursula K. Le Guin
A fatal recovery from a promising illness -- Thomas Boston
Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness? -- J. K. Rowling
Most illness begins with a negative mind. -- Napoleon Hill
Chronic disease is a food borne illness. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
We spend too much time hiding illness. -- Roger Ebert
I want to destigmatize the words mental illness. -- Linda Hamilton
Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations. -- Judith Orloff
Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness. -- Jim Rohn
grief is an illness I can't recover from. -- Sue Grafton
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. -- Alan Bennett
Health is just not valued until illness comes. -- Thomas Fuller
The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Factions are a sign of illness in a party. -- Ernest Mandel
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality. -- Virginia Woolf
We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life. -- Benedict Groeschel
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. -- David Mitchell
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error." -- David Mitchell
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure -- Karl Kraus
I can't remember missing a practice because of illness. -- Don Shula
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness -- Ignatius of Loyola
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death. -- Spike Milligan
When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness. -- Malcolm X
Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony -- Bruce H. Lipton
There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress. -- Allan Lokos
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels. -- Fran Drescher
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there. -- Mason Cooley
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover -- Marcel Proust
My main memories of my father are of his illness. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness. -- Laozi

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