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“Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.”

People Men Looks Children Long Different Facts Term Courage Issues Battle Husband Bravery Brave Illness Long Term Courageous

Author:Mary Wesley

“Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.”

Knows Knowledge Knowing Illness Taoism Not Knowing

Author:Laozi

“Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.”

Knowledge Illness Taoism

Author:Laozi

“The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.”

Knowledge Ill Illness Taoism Sage

Author:Laozi

“The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.”

Men Might Secret Progress Sick Prison Illness Productions Refuse Surface Treated Chains Zone Hospitals Consumption Select Hinder Dump Sick Man

Author:Michel de Certeau

“If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.”

Ifs Want Firsts Easy Treats Illness Cures

Author:George Vaillant

“Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.”

States Grace Illness

Author:Abbe Pierre

“Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.”

Doe Has Beens Made Said Self Known Strange Planets Doctors Complexes Patient Illness Cures Subtle Starks Make Out

Book:Prozac Diary

Source: Prozac Diary

“A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.”

“I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.”

Years Stills Names Memories Quality Serious Illness Eight Impression Fever Scarlet Agonizing Diabolical Serious Illness

Author:Pierre Loti

“Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.”

Humans Use Individual Community Attention Emotional Higher Cost Difficulty Rate Illness Senses Disorder Deficit Alienation

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved”

People Suffering Illness Our Time Being Loved

Author:Princess Diana

“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.”

Today Social Study College Illness Treatment Statistics Healer Social Science Underachieving

Author:Donald Kagan

“We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.”

Source: Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

“This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older citizens purchase hospital and medical insurance without Government assistance. This private effort would cease if Government benefits were given to all our older citizens.”

“Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Suffering Cry Tears Duty Safe Assuming Edges Illness Dare Secure Faithful Cages Relish Kinky

Author:Anne Desclos

“I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.”

“A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death”

Play Causes Roles Rich Risk Majors Fruit Illness Diets Vegetarian Vegetables Reducing Fruits And Vegetables Illness And Death

Author:Walter Willett

“When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.”

Mean Doe Art Death Dies Fighting Loses Loss Courage Victory Disease Beats Cancer Illness Sickness Life And Death Martial Arts Beaten Life Well Lived Fighting Cancer Beat Cancer

Author:Stuart Scott

“If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.”

Source: The Essential Ken Wilber

“Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.”

Heart Children Home Grows Secret Growing Up Four Our Children Patient Illness Mental Illness Granddaughter Heart Wrenching

Author:Sean Moran

“We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.”

Order Causes Waiting Justice Deals Poverty Crisis Social Justice Illness Heal Our Society Causes Of Poverty

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Want Life Secret Advice Illness Rely Good Health

Author:John Mortimer

“Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.”

Source: So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks

“If you think research is expensive, try disease!”

Ifs Thinking Trying Disease Research Illness Expensive Sickness Sarcastic Researchers Funny Sarcastic Funny Science

Author:Mary Lasker

“Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.”

“The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).”

“But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

Facts Pain Lasts Teach Forever Lessons Illness Quitting France Winner Champion Temporary Pain Is Temporary

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.”

Given Disease Illness Graves Treatment Radiation Surgery Glands Thyroid Thyroid Gland

Author:Gail Devers

“Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”

Body Life Is Existence Survival Mirrors Metaphor Cancer Illness Core Cells Copies Innate Recapitulation

Book:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”

Suffering Mindfulness Foundation Illness Mental Illness

Author:Carl Jung

“In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.”

Men Dream Poverty Acceptance Misery Illness Redemption Opposition Detachment

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.”

Should Night Praying Wake Up Illness Every Night Conventionality

Author:George Weinberg

“[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”

Force Animal Disease Research Illness Treatment Abandon Strokes Motor Bans Alzheimer Alzheimer's Primates

Author:Tipu Aziz

“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”

Death Evil Dying Politician Aspect Institutions Mere University Illness Cures Untrue Opportunist

Author:George McGovern

“In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.”

Should Earth Nations Health Financial Illness Accidents Ruins

Author:Barack Obama

“I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.”

Two Care Taken Week Illness Hospitals Hospitality Two Weeks Medication Asthma

Author:Ville Valo

“At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of an illness, other then antibiotics. If you come up with anything, stop whatever you are doing and call me.”

People Ifs Trying Next Games Challenges Party Produce Drug Tables Medicine Cancer Come Up Illness Following Dinner Cures Call Me Dinner Party Antibiotics

Author:Lynne McTaggart

“Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness”

Way Giving Normal Illness Aids Publicity Hiv Hiv Aids

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.”

People Sometimes Opportunity Enjoy Water Poverty Economic Achieve Clean Hunger Illness Relate Sufficient Nutrition Remedy Homeless Facility Clean Water Sanitary

Book:Development as Freedom

Source: Development as Freedom

“Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.”

Ifs Littles Important Force Bits Poor Health Little Bit Ill Illness Factors Episodes Wipe Ill Health

Author:Zafrullah Chowdhury

“I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.”

Knows Years Mean Dream Loss Expectations Illness Separation

Author:Annie Lennox

“If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.”

Ifs Needs Home America Roles Fire Doctors Illness Fighter Fire Fighter

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.”

Knows Men Kind Wonder Worry Men And Women Transformation Incredibles Illness Various Live By Anticipation Know Me Worry Fear

Book:How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“There is no greater illness than discouragement!”

Greater Illness Anticipation Discouragement

Author:Yisroel Salanter

“My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.”

Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man

“Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.”

“Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.”

“... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.”

Source: Collected Works

“The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.”

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