Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too.… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide. — Luke Richardson 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
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
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS… — Marva Dawn 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
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 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
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless… — Marlo Thomas 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
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
“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
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins… — Libba Bray 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail…the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox Copy Share Image
I am privileged to have people around me who understand mental illnesses and mental health. However, the stigma around it is huge. — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a… — Harry Segall Archie Mayo Dr Max Higgins Copy Share Image
“Boy, you really break things down, don't you?' Some say it is an illness.' We should all be so ill.” — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
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