Ailments Quotes - Page 3

• The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspirational, Trying, Looks

  Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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• When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Healing, Thinking

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• Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Heart, Loss, Blood

  Jeff Schweitzer, Larry Deutsch (2011). “Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction”, p.7, Dr. Larry Deutsch

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• Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

  Petrarch

  Blessing, Men, Desire

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Mind, Body, Dissonance

  Georges Rodenbach (1903). “Bruges-la-morte: A Romance”

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• I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Benefits, Body, Facts

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• Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

  Maurice Blanchot

  People, Proud, Lovers

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• Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.

  Prentice Mulford

  Health, Thinking, Dwelling

  PRENTICE MULFORD (2017). “THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY. YOUR FORCES, AND HOW TO USE THEM. VOL. VI.”, Lulu.com

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• A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Health, Medicine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.166

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• Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Insomnia, Pet

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

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• Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

  John Green

  Dutch, Language, Throat

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Affection

  'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 1 February 1711

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• My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

  William Banting

  Matter, Mere

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

  Dick Gregory

  Dark, Pet, Suffering

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• There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.

  Richard L. Evans

  Wise, Children, Home

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• He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Doctors

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.286, Jaico Publishing House

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• Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Cures, Certain, Trade

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• When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.

  Amartya Sen

  School, Issues, People

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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• A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

  Carl Jung

  Patient, Nonsense, Select

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• Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Recovery, Men, World

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• Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

  Israel Regardie

  Men, Affliction, May

  Israel Regardie, Marc Allen (2013). “The Art of True Healing: The Unlimited Power of Prayer and Visualization”, p.9, New World Library

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• On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies, resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever, without missing a beat.

  Paul P. Enns

  Perfect, Forever, Missing

  "Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?". Book by Paul Enns, 2011.

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• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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  An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

  Plutarch

  Freedom, Tyrants, Economic Inequality

  "When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

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