#illness

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#bipolar-disorder #memoir #mental-illness #life

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation. ↗

— Bernie S. Siegel

#illness #self-transformation #life

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#any #foot #ignorance #illness #just

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#athletes #cancer #constantly #courage #fight

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. ↗

— Robert Musil

#difference #fact #healthy #healthy person #ill

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line. ↗

— Bernard Sanders

#chemicals #down #erupt #gulf #gulf war

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you. ↗

— Tony Snow

#learning #less #make #secret #sick

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #blame #evil #identified #illness

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#illness #man #never #onset #own

My main memories of my father are of his illness. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#his #illness #main #memories