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“We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.”

“Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.”

Spirit Addiction Sickness

Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.”

Knows Facts Interesting Easier Sickness

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.”

“Spread the sickness, infect the world.”

World Spread Sickness

Author:David Draiman

“The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.”

Long Care Turns Depends Doctors Function Train Patient Medical Health Care Sickness Physicians Long Life Discouraging Diagnosis Hamper

Author:Ivan Illich

“These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls.”

Running Girl Sex Boys Suicide Illness Jew Mental Illness Sickness Teenage Boy And Girl Nothing New Ku Klux Klan

Author:David Duke

“Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.”

People Thinking Ideas Facts Form Too Much Illness Sickness Association Superstitions Accentuate

Book:Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

Source: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

“You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.”

Source: Reverence for Life

“The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.”

Sick Sickness Ruling Refinement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.”

Way Mind Perfect Conflict Understood Concerned Difficulty Sickness Picking And Choosing

Author:Sengcan

“How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?”

Men Eye Space Sickness Shrinks Stature Pristine Convalescence

Book:Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale

Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale

“Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.”

Men Humans Values Social Modern Civilization Weakness Silly Contemporary Sickness Mentality Symptoms Modern Man Snobbery Dislocation

Book:The trail of the dinosaur & other essays

Source: The trail of the dinosaur & other essays

“And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.”

Doe Made Stills Soul Clear Fairs Your Soul Sickness Guests Pale Breach

Book:The Poems of Edmund Waller ...

Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller ...

“We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.”

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.”

Men Should Soul Body Meditation Roots Medicine Cures Sickness

Author:Rajneesh

“Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.”

“In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.”

Stills Joy Fall Effort Sorrow Succeed Capacity Prosperity Acquire Sickness Reverse Capacity To Love Will To Succeed

Author:Alexis Carrel

“Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?”

Knows Wells Sickness

Book:Nativity. Poems

Source: Nativity. Poems

“The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.”

Men Eye Sleep Sick Sickness Sick Man

Book:Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

“In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”

Knows Men Years Firsts Heart War Purpose Suffering Humanity Can Do My Heart Depth Prosperity Triumph Thirty Sickness Forty Eighty Famine First Anniversary

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.”

People Illness Sickness Dislike Helplessness Greatest Fear

Book:Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

“That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.”

Giving Poor Worst Right Thing Sickness

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.”

Mean Has Beens Important Today Spirit Modern Shame Threat Ridiculous Damn Our Time Sickness Petty Modernism Damn Things Extermination

Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.”

Firsts Patient Sickness

Book:A Leg to Stand On

Source: A Leg to Stand On

“A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.”

Ifs Knows Men Years Ends Black Water One Day Sickness Nightmare Chill Fever Kidneys Malaria

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.”

Ideas Universal Ill Sickness

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Make sickness itself a prayer.”

Prayer Illness Sickness

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.”

Ifs May Feelings Suffering Modern Stage Objects Passing Passings Faster Sickness Finding Yourself Seconds Ovens Elementals Punching Microwaves

Author:James Gleick

“Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.”

Wells Medicine Sickness Eastern

Author:Tim Daly

“The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.”

Ifs Thinking Men Book Evil Reading Written Sickness Books And Reading

Book:A Maimonides Reader

Source: A Maimonides Reader

“How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.”

Knows Suffering Lost Poverty Path Buddhism Greed Pursuit Sickness Worldly Relieved Purification

Author:Wang Wei

“To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.”

Self Sick Illness Sickness Carrie Helpless Narcissistic Hazards Humiliating Absorption Self Absorption

Book:The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it

Source: The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it

“Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.”

Hard Growth Grace Hard Work Chaos Illness Sickness Resurrection Begets

Author:M. Scott Peck

“This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.”

Stills Book Dream Humor Funny Air Food Humorous Sickness Dedicated Airline Just A Dream Air Travel

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.”

People Knows Giving Different Whole Wisdom Able Growth Creativity Economy Wise Spring Seasons Winter Sickness Life And Death Decay Contradictory Impotence Wise People Seasons Of Life

Author:Sam Keen

“I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.”

People Use Given Attention Draws Illness Sickness Eminence

Author:John Steinbeck

“This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.”

Doe Tyranny Sickness Rooted Inherent

Book:The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus

Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus

“Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.”

People Heart Long Grace Pure Hundred Blessed Profit Sickness Good People Sacraments Blessed Sacrament

Author:Johannes Tauler

“A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.”

People Humans Eye Human Beings Tree Comfort Offers Down And Sickness Shade Shed Silhouettes Prunes

Author:Jules de Goncourt

“Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.”

Love Grows Love Is Cutting Plant Sickness Remedy Woe Barren

Book:The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings

“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.”

Doe Seems Pain Form Suffering Causes Bones Flesh Sickness Penetrate Suitable Penance

Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.”

Should Fall Stars Leader Worst Moon Mark Sickness Full Moon

Book:The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

“My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.”

Care Able Mother Cost Recovery Servant Sickness Mistress

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.”

Individual Decision Responsibility Company Products Sickness Goods Recalls Delay Identification Tainted

Author:Diana DeGette

“The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.”

Running Mother Girl Force Brain Family Gun Leaving Circles Sickness Helpless Liquor Running In Circles

Author:Lou Reed

“The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).”

Firsts States Vision Doubt Obstacles Eight Sickness Will Power Sloth Instability Dissipation

Author:Richard Rosen

“If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.”

Ifs Giving Soul Body Bigs Law Political Sin Results Office Bounds Ships Upset Meals Proportion Sickness Sail Hubris Outburst Unrighteousness

Author:Plato

“And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.”

Way Doe Different Health Normal Opposites Sick Patterns Different Ways Sickness Latter

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.”

Soul Body Health Disease Cures Sickness Ups & Downs Respite

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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