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Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention. -- Tom Shadyac
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust. -- Susan Sontag
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. -- Hippocrates
For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis. -- Tipper Gore
Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress. -- Kris Carr
Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives. -- Tom Bosley
I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy. -- Marianne Williamson
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. -- Maggie Kuhn
Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. -- Hippocrates
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure. -- David Agus
A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses. -- Lee Haney
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. -- Anatole France
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. -- Robert Musil
To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. -- Dale Murphy
The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that. -- Matthew Quick
A lot of healing is in the mind. I'm not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I'm talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it. -- Tony McCoy
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. -- Amy Bloom
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
There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments. But once you realise that things can't always go your own way, you're on the right track to being able to handle your own life. -- Diana Quick
Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer. -- Robert H. Schuller
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing. -- Paul Farmer
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. -- James D. Watson
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them. -- Karl Abraham
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were. -- Hannah Murray
Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day. -- Kurt Vonnegut
For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. -- Hippocrates
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. -- Demi Lovato
Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses. -- John Travolta
It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature. -- Johnny Hunt
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services. -- Marianne Williamson
Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses. -- Frances Hardinge
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. -- Paul Tournier
Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age. -- Deepak Chopra
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. -- Tom Rath
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health. -- Elisabeth Tova Bailey
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease. -- Steven Kassels
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses. -- Susan Sontag
I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses. -- Jill Stein
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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. -- Anton Chekhov
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. -- Aldous Huxley
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger. -- Francis Collins
In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses. -- Graham Moore
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal. -- Erma Bombeck
Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change. -- Shari Arison
If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power. -- Louise Hay
Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' -- Peter Jackson
Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient. -- W. H. Auden
Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses... -- Charles Moertel
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away. -- L. Ron Hubbard
[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses -- Tipu Aziz
A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years. -- Fethullah Gulen
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses, -- Craig Johnson
Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do. -- A.P.
While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on. -- Jonathan Cain
I'm not a brain surgeon, I'm not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that's a pretty important task. -- Emma Stone
Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer. -- Liz Miller
Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden. -- Ulisses Soares
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses. -- Marlo Thomas
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick. -- Pete Earley
The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million people recover from their illnesses. -- Richard M. Schulze
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school. -- Irwin Redlener
People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse. -- Tony Dorsett
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage). -- Charles Stross
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. -- Thomas R. Insel
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities. -- Rosalynn Carter
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses. -- Maimonides
Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses. -- Tim Daly
We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that. -- Joel Osteen
I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity. -- Kyle Massey
The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do. -- John Mortimer
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.' -- Pete Earley
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases. -- Jennifer McMahon
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. -- Robert Musil
Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses. -- Jodi Benson
But big peopleâ??s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end. -- Khushwant Singh
The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems. It also makes it harder to convince Congress to fund research. -- Michael Specter
I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem. -- Robert Jeffress
I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses. -- Tom Allen
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality. -- Paul Tournier
The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity. -- Frederick Lenz
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered. -- Donald Kagan

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