Sickness Quotes - Page 12

• I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

  Myrtle Fillmore

  Children, Child Of God

  Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1949). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”

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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

  Lynn Margulis

  Loss, Wings, Population

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• The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Political, States, Symptoms

  The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.

  James Frey

  Lost Love, Three, Causes

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• When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in perfect health that all sickness is forgotten, all the powers of mind will proceed to create health, and every trace of sickness will soon disappear. When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in higher attainments and in greater achievements that all thought of failure is forgotten, all the forces of mind will begin to work for the promotion of those attainments and achievements. The person will be gaining ground every day, and greater success will positively follow.

  Christian D. Larson

  Perfect, Achievement, Mind

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• The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sibling, Health, Reason

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.73, Verso

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• Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Running, Husband

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard G. Callaway (2006). “The conduct of life: a philosophical reading”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

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• An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

  Michio Kushi

  Hate, Ignorance, Giving

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• As you know macrobiotics has helped thousands of sick people; but this is kindergarten. The purpose of macrobiotics is to become free to change all of this world into what we want - unhappiness to happiness, sickness to health, war to peace, misery to love. When you attain this freedom you become the children of the Kingdom of Heaven.

  Michio Kushi

  Children, War, Sick

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• The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.

  Tia Mowry

  Morning, Pregnancy, Nausea

  "Teen Actress Tia Mowry, Grown Up, Talks Motherhood". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Mutation, Fever

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• A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

  J.R. Miller

  Heart, Hands, Sorrow

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• I have this mental sickness called creativity.

  Philippe Starck

  Creativity

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• Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

  Alex Grey

  Forever, Creative, Soul

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

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• Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

  Epictetus

  Responsibility, Choices, Body

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.

  Ken Wilber

  Healing, Compassion, Opportunity

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.162, Shambhala Publications

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• Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your grace by sin; but never, never will I lose my hope in You. I will cherish it unto that dreadful moment when all hell will be unchained to snatch my soul away. "No one has hoped in the Lord and has been confounded"

  Claude de la Colombiere

  Mean, Men, Grace

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• Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

  Francis Bacon

  Strong, Science, Doctors

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• A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disease, Bears, Temper

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

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• There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

  John Armstrong

  Way, Waste, Fool

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.72, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Age, Birth

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• I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Unique, Play

  Edvard Munch (1986). “Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch”

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