"I think many people with a chronic illness……" — Marya Hornbacher
"I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance."
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104 Quotes by Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher has 104 quotes on this site.
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One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind…
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[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the…
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You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life…
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I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow…
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Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and…
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You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong,…
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Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't…
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Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do.…
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So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
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We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or…
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The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over…
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In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
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More Chronic Quotes
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
— J. G. Ballard
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Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
— Kris Carr
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking…
— Loni Anderson
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A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of…
— Esther Hicks
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Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover…
— Eric Hoffer
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Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
— Thomas Sydenham
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Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do,…
— George H. Smith
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Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.
— Faye Wattleton
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes…
— Seneca the Younger
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