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“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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Illness, especially chronic illness, can be very isolating. Not only does it limit how and when you can socialise, it causes you… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
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“Surrender is an incredibly difficult topic in light of chronic illness, because loss is often continued and sustained.” — Cindee Snider Re Copy Share Image
The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
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I choose to live in the present because when you suffer from chronic illness, you don't have a choice. It's day by… — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
If you break your finger, that's on you, right? But if you get a chronic illness, if you get a serious illness… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
“I’m really tired”, you come to understand, is meaningless, giving the impression all will be well with a good rest and that… — Frances Ryan Copy Share Image
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“The core belief in having to be strong enough, characteristic of many people who develop chronic illness, is a defence. The child… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
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No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
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My advice for someone who wants to be creative but has a chronic illness is to think of something that you can… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
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