I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach."… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing,… — Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart Copy Share Image
Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Christian Scientists not only don't like to acknowledge illness; they don't like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
I think the Thompsons had got a sort of fatal illness about three albums ago and it just took this long to… — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
“Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce our inner wisdom to think with logic that's… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Nick shook his head. “It amazes me that there’s still such a huge stigma about mental illness here.” “ ‘Stigma’ implies that something… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year… — Joseph L. Bast Copy Share Image
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s,… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“Dream: I look for Lama Lodrö Kagyu teacher friend hearing he's ill & I'm ill, too - I enter his room and… — Marc Olmsted Copy Share Image
“The process of reforming the mental health system never includes the complaints that families and caregivers have regarding a need for increased… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is… — Julius Segal Copy Share Image
Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
“Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his life. Every… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates… — Greg Anderson Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was… — John Green Copy Share Image
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
“Before being a mental state of the schizophrenic who has made himself into an artificial person through autism, schizophrenia is the process… — Gilles Deleuze / Felix Guatari Copy Share Image
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image