Behavior Quote by Lawrence S. Kubie

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable…

— David Brin

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

— Alice B. Toklas

Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony

— Bruce H. Lipton

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said,…

— Virginia Woolf

“I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain…

— John Barth

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

— Paul Bowles

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

— Richard Hofstadter

Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts.

— Rhonda Byrne

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Serious illness is more than a crisis of the body, it is a crisis of the soul. Many patients react to a serious disease…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

— Susan Minot