#diseases

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#bipolar #bit #certainly #character #depression

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#die #diseases #little #past #present

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#because #brethren #developing #developing world #die

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ↗

— George Santayana

#diseases #him #instincts #less #man

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#anybody #diseases #greatest #nobody

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cures #depression #depression-humor #modern-life #humor

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. ↗

— Peter Agre

#career #cold #diseases #exotic #far

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people. ↗

— Judith Light

#create #diseases #magnificent #more #ourselves

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#associate #conditions #delayed #diseases #earlier

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#america #brain #cancer #cell #cell research