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Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with what I really wanted to do.
Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.
I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
It is impossible to insure that there is a zero percent chance of any kind of foodborne illness anytime anyone eats anywhere.
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
Eating a natural diet with loads of fresh fruit and veg and little processed food helps me manage the symptoms of my illness.
Having a mother with an illness and being there for her, and being there for my children I just realize how precious life is.
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'
The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.
I remember being in middle and high school and hearing Demi Lovato speak up about her mental illness, and that was comforting.
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'
When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.
I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.
If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.
We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right support.
Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.
Not a lot of people know it, but I don't have any qualms about saying it - there's a lot of mental illness that runs in my family.
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.
Music moves the deepest emotions, stirs buried memories, makes one forget yet creates new feelings and sometimes cures illness too.
I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.
Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.
It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is of paramount importance.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
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.
We need to do more to raise awareness of perinatal mental health illness and address the stigma that still surrounds it in our society.
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.
Americans are blessed with a can-do spirit - we don't give up, even in the face of a daunting challenge like a life-threatening illness.
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
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.
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.