I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“Be a woman of confidence, not cockiness. Know your boundaries, set no limits. Speak your kindness and turn your back to conformed… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals… — David Karp Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted.… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Depression is like a slow poison which kills you from inside. It is a disease that has no cure, but it heals… — Farah Mustafa Copy Share Image
Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul… Usually it takes possession of someone… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly,… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind… — H. A. Berlin Copy Share Image
We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to… — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the… — Dhul-Nun al-Misri Copy Share Image
Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers,… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body… — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We enjoy a growing awareness and literacy around the symptoms of and remedies for mental illness. Thanks to brave public figures and… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If too much has been made of the symptoms of Plath’s mental illness, so too little attention has been paid to its… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I'm not saying certain illnesses don't come from genetic baggage and all that. It would be too simplistic to summarize and make… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
While the circumstances of any one situation are unique, it is clear that many families could have been helped if they had… — David Lidington Copy Share Image