Sickness Quotes

• Health is not valued till sickness comes.

  Thomas Fuller

  Health

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• When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Body

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• We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Death, Health

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.16, Harmony

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• It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Spiritual, Food, Evil

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• Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Good Things, Ifs

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.156, Editora Dracaena

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• Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

  A. B. Simpson

  Jesus, Prayer, Healing

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• Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Self, Sick

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

  Lionel Trilling

  Ideas, Ill, Universal

  1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Art and Neurosis'.

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• The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Feelings

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• First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

  Oliver Sacks

  Firsts, Patient

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the savior of the human race. God is as willing to heal believers as He is to forgive unbelievers. Know this; if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family!

  T.L. Osborn

  Fall, Healing, Race

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• Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mankind, Defects

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

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• People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, People, Choices

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• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  India, Terrorism, Crime

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• Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, States, Teach

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

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• Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

  John Donne

  Wells, Knows

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.19, Litres

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• When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Over You, Body, Spirit

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2004). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do In You”, p.11, LoveWorld Publishing

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• Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mind, Belief, Divine

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• If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more

  Jim Stynes

  Life, Cancer, Disease

  Jim Stynes (2012). “My Journey”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• You can't have healing without sickness.

  T. D. Jakes

  Healing

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, War, Get Well Soon

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Roots, Medicine

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• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

  Norman Cousins

  Food, Health, Doctors

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Sex, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

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