#illness

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#country #deadly #decay #dime #eye

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#form #illness #mental #mental illness #more

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #countries #high #illness #immediately

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#darkness #light #shall #stillness

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#happen #how #learning #life #radiance

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#hardest #i #learn #stillness #the hardest thing

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#anthony #anthony hopkins #anything #appear #character

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. ↗

— Mary Garden

#block #excuse #had #i #illness

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #appear #because #cancer #come