“Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.” FeelsBodyHappinessSpiritBuddhismSicknessDependent Author:Frederick Lenz
“All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which is similar to our present physical body, but so much more glorious and wonderful and supernatural. We will be able to eat, drink, be merry and have fun without ever suffering pain or sickness or weariness or death.” WellsBodyAblePainSufferingNextFunPleasureWonderfulDrinkHaving FunGloriousSicknessHeavenlyMerryWearinessPhysical BodyNext LifeSuffering Pain Author:David Berg
“Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.” MenMindBodyYoungNightPleaseFairsLongingEaseYoung ManSicknessMaidsPlease MeQuickness Author:Thomas Campion
“If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.” IfsMindWellsBodyLyingPleasureStudyIntellectSicknessWornSheerSoarAmusementCouchesSlumberIndolenceVacancy Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper
“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.” MindHeartChildrenBodyRealityWould BeLastsFormParentDifficultImaginationCommonWifeHusbandDespairLaborSlaveryMiserySlaveDetailsNewspapersInsultSicknessDescriptionExceptionSouthernWearyHighwaysScornExceedMenaceAdvertisementsFugitiveParent ChildDerisionHusband Wife Book:Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
“I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.” PeopleShouldMindBodySeemsIllIllnessSicknessLeapSaddlesChangelings Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend