Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
“Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
We need to ensure that Americans can get treated for mental health just like they can get treated for a broken bone… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
We should open the conversation of mental health and start discussing it in classrooms, and among each other. Especially in the black… — Jordyn Woods Copy Share Image
The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance… — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If you tell someone you have depression, they will often say, "Oh, I've been depressed before, too." The difference lies between being… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think… — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
One of the patients that really stands out for me was a middle-aged woman who actually had HIV in the early days,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness. — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When it comes to a serious illness, the child who has been taught to obey has four times the chance of recovery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change. — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all… — A.P Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
