A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well. — Cheshire Cat Copy Share Image
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan Copy Share Image
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before being a mental state of the schizophrenic who has made himself into an artificial person through autism, schizophrenia is the process… — Gilles Deleuze / Felix Guatari Copy Share Image
“Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce our inner wisdom to think with logic that's… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
I think the Thompsons had got a sort of fatal illness about three albums ago and it just took this long to… — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
Christian Scientists not only don't like to acknowledge illness; they don't like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus. — Mary Faustina Kowalska 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
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social. — Peter Kinderman Copy Share Image
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
