Quotes Tagged "disease"

Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.

The environment that most influences our health and our chances of attaining wealth is the one between our ears.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Mindset is knowing that time will eventually reveal what is making you sick.

I am a dangerous person to the corporate world because I have far too much knowledge of their frauds and corruption.

The more diseases you know about the sicker you are.

Unless you truly feel the pain and sufferings of the people and living beings in flood, famine, poverty, disease, exploitation, and hunger – you cannot grow spiritually, scientifically, politically, and socially.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

Hello high altitude astronomy, goodbye health.

I am the test pilot of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

When dealing with mysterious sickness, I advise people to look at what their coworkers were dying from for clues. My coworkers were were dying from suicide, gastrointestinal disease, heart disease and brain disease.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.