Sickness can plague our physical state of being but does not have to rule our mindset and emotional health. These quotes about sickness offer the type of inspiration and encouragement you need to seek healing.
“A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.”
“All these dismal things that are going on in the world – the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution – it’s so frightful, over the whole world.”
“As you rest and heal, know that you are thought of warmly and wished a quick recovery.”
“Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“Being sick feels like you’re wearing someone else’s glasses.”
“Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.”
“Every human being is the author of his own health and disease.”
“For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.”
“Give yourself whatever gifts of time and rest you need to feel better – and know that you’re surrounded by caring thoughts and prayers and heartfelt wishes. Rest easy. Get well.”
“Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind.”
“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”
“I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache – it’s a given. What’s not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.”
“I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.”
“I think America’s obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.”
“I wonder why you can always read a doctor’s bill and you can never read his prescription.”
“If just knowing that someone cares about you helps the healing process… then you should be feeling better already.”
“If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.”
“If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well”
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.”
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.”
“I’m a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.”
“I’m just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.”
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it”
“It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.”
“Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn’t matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.”
“My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realize that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.”
“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”
“Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.”
“Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.”
“Sickness is mankind’s greatest defect.”
“Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.”
“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.”
“Sometimes I get the feeling that aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches.”
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.”
“The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.”
“The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.”
“The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.”
“The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.”
“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.”
“The treatment is really a cooperative of a trinity–the patient, the doctor and the inner doctor.”
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
“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.”
“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
“There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.”
“To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.”
“Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.”
“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.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. 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.”
Whether it is the toxins from the environment or the foods we eat, knowing what it is that makes us sick will help you to find a cure sooner than later.
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