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“The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.”
~ Norman Cousins quotes (American Essayist and Editor, long associated with the Saturday Review.
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“Sickness shows us what we are”
~ Latin Proverb quotes
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“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
~ Norman Cousins, Anatomy Of An Illness
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“You cannot “catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.”
~ Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
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Our illness is often our healing.
~ Mooji
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Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.
~ Barbara Brennan
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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
~ Nikolai Lenin
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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.
~ Jonathan Davis
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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.
~ Anais Nin
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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.
~ Fran Lebowitz
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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.
~ Rita Mae Brown
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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.
~ Marcel Proust
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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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.
~ Marcel Proust
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
~ Mason Cooley
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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.
~ Sigmund Freud
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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.
~ Lauren Bacall
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Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
~ Richard Carlson
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