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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

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.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would look at psychiatrists. You would look at family physicians, HIV specialists. People who take care of chronic illnesses by seeing people carefully over time, those are the people who get the least money. The people who have the most are people like orthopedic surgeons, interventional cardiologists. And my point isn't that there is something wrong with heroism.

I was just sort of moving through time.

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

I will find a way out or make one.

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

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!

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

Love is a grave mental illness.

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.

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

Make sickness itself a prayer.