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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

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 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!

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

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

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

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

We need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

You're never too old to be crazy.