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“Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.”

Looks Care Individual Special Disease Patient Features Cheerful Sympathetic Greetings

Author:William Osler

“The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.”

Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

“We're all unique and individual biochemically, but there are certain rules that if you violate them, you're going to have disease in the body. If you're aligned with them, you're going to have an abundance of energy and vitality and health.”

Ifs Body Certain Individual Energy Disease Unique Abundance Vitality

Author:Tony Robbins

“Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.”

People Art Different Suffering Individual Worst Disease Commitment Consequence Logic Deeper Behave Vulnerability Loved Ones Crash Utility Healed Recovering

Book:The Road to Character

Source: The Road to Character

“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”

Ifs Should Fall Individual Social Easy Consciousness Progress Subjects Disease Degrees Highest Bases Victim Subconscious Epidemics Humanistic

Author:Boris Sidis

“Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.”

Humans Heart Persons Soul Body Individual Enemy Walking Disease Criticism Cancer Destructive Human Potential Heart Disease Deterioration Destructive Criticism

Author:Brian Tracy

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”

Ifs Doe Facts Fall Individual Boys Journey Gay Disease Falling In Love Lgbt Homosexuality Homosexual Orientation Gay Rights Being Gay Gay Pride Lgbt Pride

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.”

People Needs Humans Stills Character Stories Individual Levels Disease Unique Mental Health Actresses Singers Humane Dementia Alzheimer Humanness

Author:Carey Mulligan

“Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.”

Knows Life Two Body Faces Law Individual Conditions Health Disease Medicine Behave Abnormal Diseased Laws Of Life Normal And Abnormal Variability

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.”

Individual Disease Normal Stress Grounded Strain Disturbance

Book:Negations; essays in critical theory

Source: Negations; essays in critical theory

“The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.”

Individual Cases Succeed Disease Survival Unique Miracle Stronger Impulse Strongest Will To Survive

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.”

World Soul Individual Self Esteem Goes On Disease Unique Cancer Esteem Compare Comparison Destroying

Author:Rajneesh

“Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.”

“It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.”

May Mean Individual Loss Identity Strange Disease Mere Reactions Psychological Preserves Excess Organisms

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.”

Giving Christian Values Universe Individual Disease Belonging

Author:Martin Luther

“Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States