This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Usually I take this opportunity to say something inspiring, about how my illness has changed me for the better and given me… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. — Maria Edgeworth 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
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living''… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we… — Shannon Purser 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
“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
Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely? — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to… — Florence Nightingale 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
“Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away” — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
“My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again. — Cornelia Meigs Copy Share Image
