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• To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Food, Health, Exercise

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• I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mean, Years, Pioneers

  "Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a 'Working-Class Domestic Goddess'". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 25, 2011.

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• If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, World Suffering, Want Something

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  Ornette Coleman

  Book, Nursing, Nurse

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• A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

  Lauren Bacall

  Love You, Men, Healthy

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  Karl Kraus

  Mental Illness, Therapy, Regard

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Insane, Asylums, Results

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

  Rich Lowry

  Mean, America, People

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• Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Games, Rejection

  "How Rejection Catalyzed Zuckerberg, Michael Jordan And Other Winners" by Jason Comely, www.businessinsider.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fitness, Health, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.42

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

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• You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Christian

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• Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

  Dean Ornish

  Change, Death, Heart

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• Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Serious Illness, Long, Host

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• My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

  W. C. Fields

  Baby, Food, Health

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• If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

  Ben Jonson

  Sick, Neurosis, Miscellaneous

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.78, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

  Sholem Asch

  Country, Journey, Vision

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• To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Conscious, Thorough

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.7, e-artnow

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• You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

  Michael Landon

  Death, Cures, Dies

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• The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

  Jane Roberts

  Self, Accepted, Cures

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• In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

  Patsy Cline

  Heart, Voice, Childhood

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• Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Opportunity, Revelations

  Judith Orloff, M.D. (2015). “The Power of Surrender: Let Go and Energize Your Relationships, Success, and Well-Being”, p.308, Harmony

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• Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

  Philip Roth

  Death, Dying, Knows

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Learning, Joy, Healthy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.60, Open Road Media

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