Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we… — Tom Bosley Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: 'With… — Diogo Mainardi Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“It was a dead hole, smelling of synthetic leather and disinfectant, both of which odors seemed to emanate from the torn scratched… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Do we do away with protecting of the American people with pre - to make sure that if you have an illness… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting,… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image