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“Health is just not valued until illness comes.”

“It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.”

Want Illness Staying Discovering Queries

“What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.”

Ifs Wells Names Loss Plans Weight Illness Well Being Perpetual Weight Loss Tedious Nervousness

Author:George D. Prentice

“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.”

Art Joy Night Reading Hours Sorrow Illness Healthcare Inclination Appointments Night Time

Book:The Anatomy of Bibliomania

Source: The Anatomy of Bibliomania

“Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.”

Years Age Able Citizens Illness Old Age Productive Earning

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.”

Men Matter Love You Healthy Illness Territory Outsiders

Book:By Myself and Then Some

Source: By Myself and Then Some

“And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!”

People Heart Patient Illness Mental Illness Hunting Roller Coaster Coasters

Author:Christopher Titus

“I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.”

Love Is Drug My Family Abuse Illness Mental Illness Uncles Prescriptions Screwed Up Drug Abuse Prescription Drugs

Author:Christopher Titus

“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Memories Forget Disease Decided Illness Absence Curse Related Collectives Peculiar Fugitive Collective Memory

Author:Gilles Peress

“There are certain jokes that indicate how mainstream a comic is. If you're talking about how the side effects of drugs that they advertise on TV are worse than the actual illness they're supposed to prevent, that's like the hackiest joke out there now. If you're still doing that joke, that usually is an indicator of being mainstream, in a bad way.”

Ifs Way Stills Certain Sides Talking Effects Tvs Drug Jokes Illness Comic Mainstream Side Effects Indicators

Author:Gary Gulman

“My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.”

Whole Wish Cold Disease Illness Whole Family Sinuses

Author:Dom Irrera

“Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.”

Reason Character Social Poverty Struggle Behavior Illness Mental Illness Limitation Social Behavior

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University - thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness).”

Years Growing Cost Benefits Seasons Dollars Rate University Illness Productions Woods Billions Thanks Mortality Construction Modest Fiber Yale Morbidity Yale University

Author:Joseph L. Bast

“I think the Thompsons had got a sort of fatal illness about three albums ago and it just took this long to find out that enough was enough. And we became increasingly frustrated by... I don't know, we want to get into the areas that being a pop group never allowed you to get into.”

Thinking Knows Want Long Enough Three Groups Areas Illness Albums Pops Frustrated

Author:Tom Bailey

“My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.”

Has Beens Black Generations Males Illness Association Session My Generation Premature Black Males Illness And Death

Author:Ishmael Reed

“Illness is something out of balance, rather than something within balance. It's been something that is created and it's been created for a purpose and a reason, and that purpose or reason may not be obvious to the person that has the disease. Nevertheless, there is something going on and it's not always easy to find that out.”

May Persons Reason Purpose Easy Balance Disease Illness Obvious Nevertheless

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.”

Ifs Way Persons Might Able Creation Letting Go Creating Blame Illness

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.”

People Way Mean Self Opinion Perspective Illness Stranger Self Worth Mental Illness Unhealthy

Author:Moby

“Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.”

People Want Hard Social Anxiety Shame Painful Illness Mental Illness Closeness Proximity Social Anxiety

Author:Adam Duritz

“Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.”

Mean Careers Fans Sick Tired Illness Fatigue

Author:Vince Lombardi

“There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.”

Situation Fame Illness Relate Finding Yourself Terminal Terminal Illness

Author:Diablo Cody

“Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.”

Growing Illness Mental Illness Unhappiness Dissatisfaction

Author:Ken Wilber

“You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.”

“The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.”

Men Soul Sometimes Body Passion Divine Mercy Slave Illness Dues Worn Sovereign Worn Out Divine Mercy

Author:Seraphim of Sarov

“Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.”

Happens Courses Illness Horrible Things In Life Funny Things Horrible Things

Author:Julia Sweeney

“Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.”

Suffering Five Subjects Birth Unions Aging Illness Noble Monk Clinging Seperation

Author:Gautama Buddha

“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.”

Years Moral Subjects Conflict Blue Prepared Illness Diets Vitality Bolts Overwork Intemperance

Book:The Healing of Persons

Source: The Healing of Persons

“You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.”

Trying Goal Disease Treats Illness Cures Symptoms

Author:Wanda Sykes

“The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.”

Behavior Essence Patterns Illness Insatiable Freezing

Book:Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process

Source: Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process

“I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.”

Years Lasts Illness Manage Last Year Blogs Deadline Blogging

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.”

Writing Self Care Practice Patient Illness Remove Self Care Be Patient

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.”

Way Persons School Parent Broken Illness Mess Teenage Broken Up Teenage Life

Author:Marc Almond

“I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.”

People Thinking Young Common Serious Cold Illness Vulnerable Flu Respiratory Common Cold

Author:Tia Mowry

“Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.”

Three Deals Illness Mental Illness Affliction Misunderstood

Author:Neal Shusterman

“I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.”

Thinking Knows Important Ideas Problem Environment Illness Separating

Author:Claudia Rankine

“I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly.”

Thinking Kind Use Artist Illness Endless Thirst

Author:Rebecca Miller

“From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.”

“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.”

“It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.”

Ifs Wells Seems Film Difficult Illness Heavy Mental Illness Devices

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.”

People Thinking Illness Mental Illness

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.”

People Way Want Needs Helping Police Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Officers Police Officer Health Services

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.”

Made Serious Illness Serious Illness

Author:Robert Schwentke

“Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.”

Needs Healing Attention Emotional Reflection Illness

Author:Tom Shadyac

“I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.”

Thinking Kind Bigs Certain Party Needed Scene Illness Lifestyle Mental Illness Manifestation

Author:Tom Shadyac

“People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.”

People Wells Has Beens Problem Home Today Natural Four Air Months Return Starting Illness Gas Neighborhood Los Angeles Leaks Natural Gas Respiratory Methane

Author:Ari Shapiro

“I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.”

Thinking Humans Actors Dangerous Behavior Illness Mental Illness Fascinating Our Society Surround Human Behavior Misconception Stigma

Author:Laura Benanti

“If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.”

Ifs Believe Hands Evidence Illness Trials Mental Illness Psychological Data Treatment Clinicals Clinical Trials

Author:Richard Bentall

“Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.”

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