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Resilience is not the absence of struggle, but the courage to braid your scars into your story, creating a tapestry of strength.
Author:
Lydia Tarbell
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To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Author:
Ellen Wilkinson
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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.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
Author:
George Weinberg
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Author:
Simone Weil
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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
Author:
John Wanamaker
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Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Author:
Joan Vinge
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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.
Author:
Ville Valo
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.
Author:
Alan Thicke
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No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Author:
Thomas Szasz
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Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
Author:
Albert Speer
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
Author:
Tony Snow
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But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
Author:
Christopher Shays
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I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.
Author:
Christopher Shays
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Author:
George Shaw
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?
Author:
Curt Schilling
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What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
Author:
Bernard Sanders
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The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
Author:
Jane Roberts
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Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
Author:
Sima Qian
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Art is a kind of illness.
Author:
Giacomo Puccini
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
Author:
Abbe Pierre
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When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
Author:
Bernadette Peters
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
Author:
Jack Osbourne
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Author:
Anais Nin
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Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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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.
Author:
Sun Moon
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Author:
Kate Millett
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Author:
Kate Millett
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Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
Author:
Susannah McCorkle
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
Author:
Ernest Mandel
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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.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.
Author:
Jonah Lomu
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Author:
Madeleine L'Engle
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.
Author:
Michael Landon
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
Author:
C. Koop
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Author:
Naomi Judd
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Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
Author:
John Hutton
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A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.
Author:
Howard Hodgkin
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Author:
Herodotus
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This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
Author:
Daryl Hall
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My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
Author:
Mary Garden
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MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
Author:
Annette Funicello
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
Author:
Carrie Fisher
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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Author:
Marilyn Ferguson
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
Author:
Hans Eysenck
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We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.
Author:
Andrew Eschenbach
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Author:
Karen Duffy
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
Author:
Karen Duffy
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I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.
Author:
Karen Duffy
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For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
Author:
Ann Druyan
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Author:
Fran Drescher
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A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
Author:
Heather Donahue
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America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
Author:
Patti Davis
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A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Author:
Jonathan Davis
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Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.
Author:
David Coverdale
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I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.
Author:
Kenneth Cooper
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
Author:
John Conyers
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
Author:
Richard Codey
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Author:
Irvin Cobb
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In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
Author:
Patsy Cline
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All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
Author:
Margaret Chan
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The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.
Author:
Neil Cavuto
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Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Author:
Richard Carlson
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We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
Author:
Michael Burgess
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Author:
Rita Brown
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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.
Author:
Lauren Bacall
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It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Author:
Lee Atwater
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
Author:
Lee Atwater
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Author:
Lance Armstrong
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I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
Author:
Kirstie Alley
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Author:
Jack Abbott
