#sickness

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red. ↗

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

#death-and-dying #death-and-sickness #disease #disease-prevention #history

While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses, then all families within that culture will have to struggle with the same malaises. There is a saying cultura cura, culture cures. If the culture is a healer, the families learn how to heal; they will struggle less, be more reparative, far less wounding, far more graceful and loving. In a culture where the predator rules, all new life needing to be born, all old life needing to be gone, is unable to move and the soul-lives of its citizenry are frozen with both fear and spiritual famine. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#psychology #sickness #family

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#any #being #change #death #eternal

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#conditional #greatest #known #man #self-esteem

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night! ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#because #call #day #i #know

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#books #emotions #master #presents #repeats

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greatest #mankind #sickness

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#make #makes #sickness #trust

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#cradle #death #followed #insanity #life

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . ↗

— Evita Peron

#brought #day #eight #fair #families