It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
“the testing of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over… — Moby Copy Share Image
Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Your true love for God is demonstrated through your ability to hold onto your faithfulness in the midst of Prosperity and Poverty,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
