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She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there -- you can't see or smell or hear, touch or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead. -- Francesca Lia Block
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. -- Sitting Bull
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). -- Dawn Powell
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. -- George Etherege
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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. -- Elizabeth Edwards
I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally. -- Suzanne Somers
I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved. -- Tara Brach
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. -- Thomas Szasz
The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique. -- Patti Davis
It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head. -- Nina Hagen
I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone. -- Ricardo Antonio Chavira
My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love. -- Bonnie Tyler
This is why Alzheimer's is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, but they've gone - your husband is gone - and they become your child, and you have to look after them as you would a child. -- Judy Parfitt
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease. -- Monica Potter
Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer. -- Jack Layton
I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.' -- Melissa Etheridge
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma. -- Jeff Merkley
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. -- Princess Diana
I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love. -- Patti Davis
Love: a grave mental disease. -- Plato
Love's a disease. But curable. -- Rose Macaulay
Love is a serious mental disease. -- Plato
Love is the worst kind of self-disease. -- M.F. Moonzajer
What is love but an undiscovered disease? -- Megan Duke
Love is the medicine that saves from disease. -- Benny Hinn
Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. -- Sam Shepard
Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please. -- Lysa TerKeurst
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Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. -- Lauren Oliver
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic. -- Albert Camus
The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love. -- India.Arie
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love. -- Graham Greene
Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds. -- Guru Gobind Singh
Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will. -- Elizabeth Cohen
Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. -- Giacomo Casanova
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. -- Nancy Mitford
Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you. -- Betsey Johnson
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. -- Henry Adams
To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease. -- Wyndham Lewis
As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them. -- Carol Burnett
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. -- Alain de Botton
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease. -- Alain de Botton
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer. -- Italo Svevo
There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects. -- Cassandra Clare
I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love. -- Faith Sullivan
It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-canÂ´t-help-it. -- Martin Walser
Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure. -- John Dryden
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured. -- Victoria Woodhull
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. -- Virginia Woolf
The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us. -- P. D. James

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