Illness Quotes - page 13

I get Tweets every day from people telling me that 'Hey, I'm going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different diseases. I can beat it because Adrian Peterson showed me the determination and the willpower to be able to prosper and get through adversity whenever it comes.' (Adrian Peterson)
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help. View quote
Clara Hughes
I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to? View quote
Curt Schilling
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness. View quote
Carl Honore
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness. View quote
David Blunkett
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States. View quote
Elyn Saks
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! View quote
Eric Jerome Dickey
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission. View quote
Eric Ries
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. View quote
Gail Devers
Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good. (Harvey V. Fineberg)
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history. View quote
Harvey V. Fineberg
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness. View quote
Heather Armstrong
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously. View quote
Jane Green
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.' View quote
Jane McGonigal
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer. View quote
Jane Pauley
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story. View quote
Jennifer Gilmore
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol. View quote
Joe Bastianich
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization. View quote
John Conyers
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future. View quote
John Edward
That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing. (Judy Parfitt)
I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956. View quote
Kenneth H. Cooper
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness. View quote
Karen Abbott
I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital. View quote
Karen Duffy
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live? View quote
Karen Duffy