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The idea of the Eternal Return can be fully grasped only by a man endowed with several chronic, hence recurrent infirmities, and who thus has the advantage of proceeding from relapse to relapse, with all that this implies as philosophic reflexion.
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.
Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X
Want and sickness are too common in many stations of life to deserve more notice than is usually bestowed on the most ordinary vicissitudes of human nature.
Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]
People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
There's a sickness in my soul,
and I don't know,
but I've been told it's incurable
Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.
If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.
Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.
My readiness to admit to my fallibility is perhaps rather English, but I hope that the problems I describe will be familiar to doctors and patients everywhere.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
is, in truth, a variety of diseases
Disease may ... be thought of as the negation of the normal.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
The reasons for their illness lie in their personal journey and are probably related to their individual purpose.
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.
malady of reverie.
Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.
You are not subject to the systems or structures of this world, you belong to the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Glory, Prosperity, Beauty and Honor- where sickness is foreign.
Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.
Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction.
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
What does disabled mean anyhow?
Some people think insufficiency means weakness and surplus means strength, but this impression is wrong.
An affected health has come in contact with worry
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.
Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
Charles Spurgeon's words: You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health ...
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.
Tired, not just of living, but of existing.
The curse of the great is ennui.
By and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.
This long disease, my life.
That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you to the idea of life, to survival, then it has failed utterly.
As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
Health = positive things minus negative
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who
A friend should bear his friends infirmities.
This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
The attitude of invincibility flees at the first encounter of injury, disease, or loss of a loved one.
Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.
We should every night call ourselves to an account;
What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.
At the end of the day, whether we find ourselves in the autumn of our years or not, we will all become infirm in the end but we should never let it limit our thinking.
He is an unskilful physician that cannot cure one disease without casting his patient into another.
A chronic invalid has but one thought about his identity: He doesn't want to be a sick man. The rest of the discussion seems frivolous to him-an immense privilege of the healthy. Still, I'm a novelist, and so I pursue it.
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.