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“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.”

Feels Body Happiness Spirit Buddhism Sickness Dependent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.”

Mind Heart Kind Feelings Spirit Lying Dies Down And Longing Bitter Sickness Anguish Heart And Mind Remorse Fatigue Weariness Prostration

Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

“Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.”

Made Pain Spirit Saint Sickness Pilgrim

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.”

Body Spirit Sleep Walks Grief Illness Breathe Sickness

Author:Zelda Popkin

“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.”

People Ifs Care Spirit Nations Responsibility Democracy Disease Accounts Assuming Illness Health Care Sickness Volume

Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart

“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.”

Should Spirit Water Forget Steps Sea Rivers Corporate Sickness Gates Shade Factories Salt Avenues Pilgrimage

Book:How to Paint a Dead Man

Source: How to Paint a Dead Man

“You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.”

May Use Body Might Pain Spiritual Spirit Order Enjoy Sickness Grants Ignored Sweetness Vigorous Good Health

Author:Blaise Pascal