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Disease is a condition that prevents the body or mind from working normally

• Disease: An illness that affects a person, animal, or plant: a condition that prevents the body or mind from working normally.  Merriam Webster
• Disease: A problem that a person, group, organization, or society has and cannot stop.   Merriam Webster
• Cancer,  Health,  Adversity,  Well-being

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Illness is a condition of being unhealthy in your body or mind

• Sickness: Unhealthy condition of body or mind.    Merriam Webster
• Illness: A condition of being unhealthy in your body or mind.   Merriam Webster
• Illness: A specific condition that prevents your body or mind from working normally: a sickness or disease.   Merriam Webster

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Illness can have both physical and spiritual causes

• Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not contradictory. Abdu’l-Bahá

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In the treatment of disease, the mind and body should not be separated

• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. Plato
• Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies.  Jeff Miller
• When you treat a disease, first treat the mind. Chen Jen
• A healthy mind can work wonders on a sick body, and a healthy body can work wonders on a sick mind. J.J. Goldwag
• Mind, body, soul connection

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Much of our physical illnesses originate in the mind …

• Most of the time we think we’re sick, it’s all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe
• No matter what the illness or addiction or distorted physical expression, its cause is in the mind, and only there can it be healed. The greatest power we’re given by God is the power to change our minds. Marianne Williamson
• Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. Zacharty Bercovitz
• The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind. Hazrat Khan
• Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
• A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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… and from illness of the soul

• A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. Saul Bellow
• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Cicero
• 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
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Diseased thoughts can have a great effect on the body

• Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. Zacharty Bercovitz
• Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it. Virginia Woolf
• A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption. Guy de Maupassant

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The mind has the power to treat many physical illnesses

• Hundreds of investigations have demonstrated the power of the human mind over disease. The treatment principle might be summed up this way: Just as an antibiotic drug may stop an infection or surgery may eliminate a malignancy, so the mind—your mind—has the capacity to treat or even cure many of your serious physical and emotional complaints. Herbert Benson

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Health is our natural condition …

• Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a ‘sound mind in a sound body’. Jostein Gaarder
• It’s more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things. Robert Anthony
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…while illness is caused by disharmony …

• Health and disease don’t just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity. Marilyn Ferguson
• The cause is within us. The cure is within us. When we know this our concept of disease is no longer that of something fixed upon the body cells which must be purged, cut or burned away. It is not something coming in from the outside which we cannot prevent. Rather it is a change from within, and we must find the reason why the body changes its perfect pattern to vibrate to discord rather than to harmony. Rebecca Beard
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… and imbalance …

• Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness…. Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are. Barbara Brennan
• The greatest art is to attain a balance, a balance between all opposites, a balance between all polarities. Imbalance is the disease and balance is health. Imbalance is neurosis, and balance is well-being. Osho
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… a deviation from the state nature intended for us

• The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. Edward Jenner
• Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. Charles Simmons
• Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou
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Illness is caused by an unhealthy lifestyle

• Your lifestyle – how you live, eat, emote, and think – determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live. Brian Carter
• To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely. Rene Dubos

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Illness is caused by excess

• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. Thomas Hobbes
• Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. Marion L. Burton
• Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Cyril Connolly
• The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. George W. Thornbury
• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare
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Illness is caused by unhealthy diet …

• I have heard one doctor call high-protein, high fat, low-carbohydrate diets “make-yourself-sick” diets, and I think that’s an appropriate moniker. You can also lose weight by undergoing chemotherapy or starting a heroin addiction, but I wouldn’t recommend those, either. Colin Campbell
• You want cancer? Heart disease? Diabetes? Then eat a lot of processed foods with very little nutrient density and a whole lot of calories. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
• Whatsoever was the father of disease, an ill diet was the mother. Proverb
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… especially too many animal-based foods …

• People who ate the most animal based foods got the most chronic disease… People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. T. Colin Campbell
• I think of dairy products as meat, only in a liquid, cream or solid form. After all, they contain just as many concentrated, disease- promoting, and nutritionally compromised calories. Rip Esselstyn
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… and to much sugar …

• Sugar can suppress the immune system. Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been linked to breast, ovarian, prostate, and rectal cancer. Sugar can weaken eyesight and cause premature skin aging. Sugar can cause premature aging in general and increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Sugar can cause autoimmune disease, arthritis, asthma, heart disease, migraines, and multiple sclerosis. Nancy Appleton

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Anxiety about diet can become a kind of disease in itself

• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. George Dennison Prentice
• To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. François de la Rochefoucauld
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Illness is caused by misdirected life force

• Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected. Kabbalah

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Illness is caused by chronic fear and stress

• According to 3 different 10-year studies, emotional stress is a stronger predictor of death from cancer and heart disease than smoking. Steve Pavlina
• In most cases stress is the root cause of death; illnesses are just the wrap up. Yordan Yordanov
• Ranging from irritability and lack of concentration, to muscle tension, sleep disturbances, and even physical illnesses, the symptoms of stress are all too familiar to many of us. Amanda Harvey
• The stress response exists to protect you. It’s meant to get you out of harm’s way when your life is in danger. But these days, the average person has 50 stress responses per day. It’s no wonder chronic illnesses are at epidemic levels. Lissa Rankin
• When we feel in constant danger, as we do with depression and other stress-related diseases, we keep on pumping out stress hormones. This can lead to exhaustion, cardiac strain, kidney damage, muscle fatigue, damage to the digestive and circulatory system, loss of appetite and the ability to absorb nutrients, damage to the immune system so we’ll be more vulnerable to infection, loss of interest in sex, and the constant subjective feeling of tension and fear.  Richard O’Connor
• Fear,  Stress

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Illness is caused by lack of exercise

• Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise. Mike Adams
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Illness comes from loneliness, despair and unmet potential

• I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness. Tom Cochrane
• Despair often breeds disease. Sophocles
• If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. William James
• Loneliness,  Despair,  Potential

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Illness can contain blessings

• A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. Hippocrates
• Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have. Edvard Munch

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Illness can be a great teacher

• 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
• Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. Charlotte Joko Beck

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Illness can teach you the value of health

• From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. Catalan proverb
• Health is not valued until sickness comes. Thomas Fuller
• 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
• What is joy without sorrow? What is success without failure? What is a win without a loss? What is health without illness? You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. There is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you. Mark Twain
• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Charles Caleb Colton
• It’s not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. 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. Greek proverb
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Illness can teach you the value of surrender

• This is one of the hidden gifts of serious illness or loss. It pushes us right to our edge, where we may have the good fortune to realize that our only real option is to surrender to our experience and let it just be. Ezra Bayda
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Illness can be the catalyst to personal growth

• You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Illness can be a wake-up call to look after your body

• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
• It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. Marcel Proust

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Illness can be a wake-up call to embrace life

• Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one’s own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease. Lawrence Leshan
• Sometimes it takes a wake-up call like cancer to bring us back to ourselves. The crisis of illness may shake us free of the life that we have created and allow us to begin a return to the life that is our own.  Often what then turns out to be important is not a surprise at all.  One patient, a CEO diagnosed with cancer, told me, “I always knew what mattered. I just never felt entitled to live by it before.  Rachel Naomi Remen
• I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions. Henri Matisse
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Never see your illness as diminishing you

• My contention is that as long as you have other faculties–the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties- – you haven’t lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don’t be ashamed when you’re physically limited or dysfunctional; don’t think that you’re any less because of your condition.  In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before.  Morrie Schwartz

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Illness is the means by which your body frees itself of what is alien

• Our illness is often our healing. Mooji
• Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. Rainer Maria Rilke

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Deal with your illness rather than fighting with it as an enemy

• Dealing with it is the operative word. I found myself at seven years not battling it. Not struggling with it. Not suffering from it. Not breaking under the burden of it, but dealing with it.  Michael J. Fox (referring to his Parkinson’s Disease)

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Face your illness with acceptance and equanimity

• Acceptance means accepting the conditions of the moment (e.g. there is pain), rather than the story or concept you create around it (e.g. I have a serious illness.) Eckhart Tolle
• All kinds of seemingly opposing things can come up—illness, death, disaster, terrorism, praise, success, and joy. Great equanimity means being at ease in the face of all these appearances. When nothing can affect our well-being, then we truly have a choice in life.  Candice O’Denver
• This is one of the hidden gifts of serious illness or loss. It pushes us right to our edge, where we may have the good fortune to realize that our only real option is to surrender to our experience and let it just be. Ezra Bayda
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… for great resistance will only make you more unwell

• The only problem, the only thing that causes you any trouble, the only thing that slows you down, the only thing that keeps you from what you want, the only thing that makes you sick is resistance. Abraham-Hicks
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Even if your illness is debilitating, know you have amazing power to adapt

• Human beings are actually lucky to have to have the ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances, as it’s extremely useful when bad things happen. Some studies of hedonic adaptation show, for instance, that we have a phenomenal ability to recover much of our happiness after a debilitating illness or accident.  Sonja Lyubomirsky

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The greatest physician is the one within us

• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Hippocrates
• Medicine is the art of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire
• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. Norman Cousins

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Cure illness through moderation, balance and harmony

• The cause is within us. The cure is within us. When we know this our concept of disease is no longer that of something fixed upon the body cells which must be purged, cut or burned away. It is not something coming in from the outside which we cannot prevent. Rather it is a change from within, and we must find the reason why the body changes its perfect pattern to vibrate to discord rather than to harmony. Rebecca Beard
• The greatest art is to attain a balance, a balance between all opposites, a balance between all polarities. Imbalance is the disease and balance is health. Imbalance is neurosis, and balance is well-being. Osho
• The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a ‘sound mind in a sound body’. Jostein Gaarder
• Moderation,  Balance,  Harmony

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Cure physical illness by treating the mind

• When you treat a disease, first treat the mind. Chen Jen
• Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. Aeschylus
• Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies.  Jeff Miller
• A healthy mind can work wonders on a sick body, and a healthy body can work wonders on a sick mind. J.J. Goldwag

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Cure illness through getting lots of rest

• If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it’s sick.  When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do in order to heal yourself.  Your body may tell you to change certain habits, eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an answer available to you.  The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response.  Shakti Gawain
• When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up. Terri Guillemets
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Cure illness by anticipating recovery …

• If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid. Bernie Siegel
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… by harnessing the power of faith

• Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone. Sheryl Crow
• Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes. Martin Luther
• Faith,  Trust

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… by harnessing the power of hope

• Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired. Eric Swensson
• Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.  Samuel Johnson
• The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. Nikolai Lenin
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Cure illness by harnessing the power of visualisation

• An important weapon in the battle with disease is to visualize your body filling with vitality and light. J. Goldwag
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Cure illness by harnessing the power of music

• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. Martin Luther
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Cure illness by harnessing the power of laughter

• WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. Ellie Katz

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You are the author of your own health and illness

• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. Buddha

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The best way to cure any illness is to prevent it in the first place

• Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease. Denis Burkitt
• I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something. Maya Angelou

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Prevent disease by resolving to get healthy …

• I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. Fannie Lou Hamer
• In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. Fannie Lou Hamer
• The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is and decide to change themselves. Sidney Madwed

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… realising that true health is far more than just the absence of illness

• Health is not simply the absence of sickness. Hannah Green
• Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. World Health Organization
• Even people who aren’t sick may not have optimal wellness. Brian Carter
• Where health is no more than the absence of disease; Strength is the presence of abundant energy – a capacity and reserve to be a force in your world. It’s inclusive of health and at the same time so much more; it’s being healthy and flowing with energy, power and confidence. Shawn Phillips

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Prevent illness by living a balanced life

• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. John Wanamaker
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Prevents illness by finding ways to be happy

• It is a scientific fact that people who are happy get sick less, recover faster, accomplish more and live much longer. Happiness of the heart by any measure is necessary for self health. J. Michael Zenn
• The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick. Bernie Siegel
• Happiness,  Cheerfulness

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Prevent illness by keeping your mind positive and optimistic

• Your ability to view circumstances in a favorable light is your most powerful weapon against disease. J.J. Goldwag
• Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease. Thomas C. Haliburton
• Positivity,  Optimism

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Prevent illness through thoughts of well-being

• There is not a stream of badness and a stream of goodness, or sickness or wellness. There is only a Stream of Well-being. The question that you’re wanting to ask yourself is, “In this moment, am I letting it in or not? Am I allowing it or am I not?” Abraham/Hicks
• During moments of strife and ‘dis-ease’, check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good. F. Hodge
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Prevent illness through a healthy diet

• If I told you there was a little purple pill proven to reduce your risk of cancer by a whopping 41% (cutting your risk of cancer almost in half), would you take it? Men who ate three servings of vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, etc.) a week had a 41% reduced risk of prostate cancer than those who didn’t. There’s your pill—and you don’t even have to visit (or pay) your doctor or your pharmacist. I could literally spend the rest of this book quoting you study after study showing how fruits and vegetables ward off all kinds of diseases and illnesses. J. Michael Zenn
• Instead of considering adding protective fruits, vegetables, beans, seeds, and nuts to our disease- causing diet, we must make these foods the main focus of the diet itself. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. Maimonides
• Populations that eat a lifelong diet of mostly plant foods have almost no cancer, heart attacks and heart disease. If this is true, that would mean that cancer, heart disease and chronic illness are fruit and vegetable deficiency diseases. Get these living foods in your body and you may not have to worry about dying of one of these dire diseases. Arthur Schopenhauer
• So be proactive. Eat a whole food, nutrient rich, plant-based diet. Never allow the building blocks of stroke and heart disease—artery-clogging saturated fat, dietary cholesterol, and acidic animal protein—into your body. Rip Esselstyn
• To avoid sickness, eat less; to prolong life worry less. Chu Hui Weng
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Prevent illness by getting lots of exercise

• Exercise not only helps your immune system fight off simple bacterial and viral infections; it also decreases your chances of developing heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The key to the longevity- promoting effects of exercise is maintaining a high degree of exercise tolerance and fitness. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
• No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you’ve probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you— indeed, guaranteed you—that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. Earl of Derby
• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. Soren Kierkegaard
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Prevent illness by not dwelling on it

• Don’t probe darkness to understand light. Don’t dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don’t indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply. Lester Levensen
• Have you noticed that those who speak most about illness have it, those that speak most about money have it, those that speak about poverty have it … that must be their experiences. Whatever you focus on will come to you. Abraham-Hicks
• If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be. Emile Coue

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Prevent illness through the power of forgiveness

• “Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy. Charles Fillmore
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Prevent illness by helping others

• Even thinking about helping others boosts our health. Psychologist Dr. David McClelland of Harvard University had a group of students watch a film about Mother Teresa’s work in the slums of Calcutta. Sit and watch was all they did, but later tests revealed that students responded to the film physically, with an increase in immunoglobulin A, an antibody that defends against certain diseases. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• Helpfulness,  Caring,  Service

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Prevent illness by creating loving connections with others

• Close family ties and a cohesive community turned out to be more important than health habits in predicting heart disease. Joan Borysenko
• Connection,  Intimacy,  Vulnerability

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Pessimism is a kind of illness

• A pessimist is a person who is seasick during the entire voyage of life. Zig Zigler
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Melancholy is a kind of illness

• Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease. Thomas C. Haliburton
• Sadness,  Depression

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Excessive guilt is a kind of illness

• Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear. Junius
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Envy is a kind of illness

• Envy is a sickness growing from other men’s happiness. Aurelius
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Resentment is a kind of illness

• Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. Alcoholics Anonymous
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Excessive pride is a kind of illness

• Pride is the only disease known to humans that makes everyone sick except the one who has it. Buddy Robinson
• Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. Hartman Rector, Jr.
• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it’s conditional. Albert Ellis
• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism. Robert Frost
• Pride,  Arrogance

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Doubt is a kind of illness

• Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. Gustave Flaubert
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Excessive fear is a kind of illness

• Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness. Psychotic behavior occurs when the mind is so frightened and the wounds so painful, that it seems better to break contact with the outside world.
• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. William Lyon
• To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time. A. Overstreet
• Fear,  Anxiety

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Jealousy is a kind of illness

• Jealousy is a disease, it’s like a poison. Francesca Marciano
• Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Robert A. Heinlein
• Love” is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein
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Hatred is an illness

• For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness. Aeschylus
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Having a bad conscience is a kind of illness

• The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world. William E. Gladstone
• Conscience

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Excessive seriousness is a kind of illness

• Seriousness is a disease. Rajneesh

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Self-pity is a kind of illness

• Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble. It is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality – a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict. Eugene H Peterson
• Self-pity is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality. Eugene H Peterson
• Self-pity is the first symptom of paranoia. And paranoia is a disease of the brain that comes from continually thinking of one’s own self and dwelling on slights and fancied results. Elbert Hubbard
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Suspicion is a kind of illness

• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect. Ben Jonson

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Making excuses is a kind of illness

• Go deep into your study of people, and you’ll discover unsuccessful people suffer a mind- deadening thought disease. We call this disease excusitis. Every failure has this disease in its advanced form. And most ‘average’ persons have at least a mild case of it. David Schwartz
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Thinking without action is a kind of illness

• Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease. Henry Ford
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Hypocrisy is a kind of illness

• Hypocrisy is a subtle evil, a secret illness, a hidden poison; it is an adulteration of virtue and a worm that consumes sanctity. All things hostile mount their assault with their own strength, fight with their own arms, and attack openly. They are guarded against as easily as they are seen. Hypocrisy pretends to be free of danger, feigns prosperity, deceives carefully, and in its cruel craft lops off the virtues with virtue as its sword; it kills fasting by fasting, by praying it makes praying empty, and it debases mercy by mercy. Hypocrisy, like a fever, boils up within while being cold without. What dropsy is for the body, hypocrisy is for the soul. Peter Chrysologus
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Revenge is a kind of illness

• Revenge is a fervor in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. Charles Caleb Colton
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Perfectionism is a kind of illness

• There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. Rumi
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Constantly comparing yourself to others is a kind of illness

• From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with. Osho
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Gossip is a kind of illness

• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip’s a nasty thing, but it’s sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred. Booth Tarkington
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Constantly putting things off is a kind of illness

• Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Timothy Ferriss
• Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way. Timothy Ferriss
• When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is a disease. V. L. Allineare
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Negative thinking is a kind of illness

• For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction… A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three – – the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn’t get you, the others are waiting in the wings. Peter McWilliams
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Being constantly caught up in the thinking mind is a kind of illness

• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease… Eckhart Tolle
• With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. Samuel Johnson
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Constantly judging and evaluating things in a kind of illness

• The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease. Sent-ts’an
• To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind. Sengcan
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Complaining is a kind of illness

• Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Og Mandino
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Violence is a kind of illness

• Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. Chris Hedges
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Alcoholism is an illness

• Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn’t matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover. Craig Ferguson
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Here are more suggested illnesses

• The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind,’ wrote the sixth-century Zen master Seng- ts’an. Stephen Mitchell
• I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do. George Eliot
• Misery is a communicable disease. Martha Graham
• The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. Marianne Moore
• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. Simone Weil
• There is no disease so destructive as lust. Chanakya
• Without money honor is merely a disease. Jean Racine
• Divorce is a failed challenge, which leads to a broken life. It is a socially transmittable disease that can transfer from one generation to another, and it is spreading fast. Sia F. Dean
• To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.  Lao Tzu
• Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you. Lady Gaga
• I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness – a real thorough-going illness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein
• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. Said Nursi

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Some argue we are living in a society that is partly ill …

• I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. Rebecca West
• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. Henry Miller
• Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick. Lyn Yutang

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… a society afraid to embrace living …

• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. William Lyon
• To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time. A. Overstreet

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… a society obsessed with control …

• The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. Steve Maraboli
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… a society unable to trust …

• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. Franz Boas
• For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends. Aeschylus
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… a society obsessed with material things …

• The goals of corporate consumerism require that we accept its values, that we fail to seek better alternatives, that we reject the possibility of finding better alternatives (‘psycho-babble’), that we fail even to see the existence of a problem to be solved, that we therefore live according to an entirely inadequate set of values, that we therefore live in complete confusion, that we therefore suffer profound and devastating psychological, physical and environmental disease; that we suffer and, if necessary, die for profit. David Edwards
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… a society that stretches itself to thin …

• Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other. Terri Guillemets
• If people got just one more hour of sleep each night, our Western “sleep-sick” society would be much healthier and happier. Sonja Lyubomirsky

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… a society obsessed with haste and speed …

• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• I don’t have an answer for the hurry sickness afflicting our society and our souls. But I do trust that the how- to- stop-it is within you, and you can change your pace if you want to. Sue Patton Thoele
• This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold
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… a society that is chronically stressed

• Stress is a mental illness that is accepted in social life. Meera Bolton
• Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. Richard Carlson
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… a society where many don’t feel a sense of belonging

• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut
• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of not belonging. Mother Teresa
• I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. Princess Diana
• One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Mother Teresa
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Being well adjusted to such a world doesn’t make us healthy

• As a whole part of psychological education, it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. James Agee
• Being well adjusted to a sick society is not an indication of health. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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It’s time for medicine to focus as much on prevention of disease as on cure

• The superior doctor prevents sickness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness.  The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.  Chinese Proverb
• The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Alva Edison
• The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. Ashley Montagu
• He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he who prevents it is the safest physician. Thomas Fuller
• Surgeons can cut out everything except cause. Herbert M. Shelton

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It’s time for medicine to focus on the patient, not just the disease

• The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. Maimonides
• In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. Oliver Sacks

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Beware of the remedy for it can be worse than the illness it treats

• More people die of their medicines than their diseases. Moliere
• Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. Jean Baptiste Moliere
• The remedy is worse than the disease. Francis Bacon

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Pain can be warning of an oncoming illness

• Not all pain is bad. In fact, in some situations, pain can actually be helpful. It can warn you that a stove is too hot or be an early warning sign of a potentially serious illness or a tumor. Chronic pain however, usually serves no useful purpose. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D
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Pain can be one of the ways the body heals illness

• Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility; for his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, and the cup he brings, though it burn your lips has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears. Kahlil Gibran
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However, pain itself can become a disease if it becomes chronic

• Chronic pain affects at least 100 million American adults; more than the total affected by heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D

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Love is a disease that needs no cure

• Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured. Paulo Coelho
• Love is a serious mental disease. Plato
• Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Fran Lebowitz
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Love can become ill and needs to be treated when it does

• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. Anaïs Nin

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Depression is a physical illness and needs to be treated

• A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. Jonathan Davis
• Depression is a physical illness. Terry Bradshaw
• The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality – the ability to experience a full range of emotions, including happiness, excitement, sadness, and grief. Depression is not an emotion itself; it’s the loss of feelings, a big heavy blanket that insulates you from the world yet hurts at the same time. It’s not sadness or grief, it’s an illness. Richard O’Connor, Ph.D.
• Depression may be caused by physical illness. If you feel depressed it is important to seek assistance from a physician or holistic medical practitioner. Treatment for thyroid, digestive and adrenal problems may clear up depressive episodes. Robert M. Oliva
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Life is a terminal illness so embrace it fully while you’re still alive

• Life is an incurable disease. Cowley Abraham
• Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. Neil GaimanLife is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.  Neil Gaiman
• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. D. Laing
• Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live- – you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason–or you will never be at all.  Dan Millman

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We need to think of the planet we’re living on as a living organism that can get profoundly sick

• We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops. Paul Brooks

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Always do your best but cut yourself some slack when you’re ill

• Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• Your best will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick, or sober as opposed to drunk. Your best will depend on whether you are feeling wonderful and happy, or upset, angry, or jealous. Don Miguel Ruiz

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Illness tends to arrive fast and leave slowly

• The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. Chinese Proverb
• Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. William C. Hazlitt

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• First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. Steve Martin
• I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. Andy Warhol
• Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult. David Frost
• Masturbation: The primary sexual activity of mankind.  In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.  Thomas Szasz
• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they’re ok, then it’s you. Rita Mae Brown
• Youth is a disease from which we all recover. Dorothy Fulheim
• Xmas: A popular festival made to sound like a skin disease.  Mike Fairfield
• When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick. George Burns
• They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.  Chi Chi Rodriguez
• Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
• If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease. Robert Green Ingersoll
• It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. Albert Schweitzer
• My illness is due to my doctor’s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. W. C. Fields
• It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like. Jackie Mason

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