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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Love is a grave mental illness.

Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.

Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

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.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

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.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

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

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.