#illness

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #ill #illness #important #man

Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness ↗

— Janet Thompson

#illness #lay-off #mentee #mentor #mentoring

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

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. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#arrives #believed #both #coming #either

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#am #bragging #came #come #funeral

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#because #dealing #depression #experience #had

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached. ↗

— Julie Bale

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #the-stillness-of-you #beauty

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. ↗

— Columba Bush

#because #been #daughter #fighting #ill

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#darkness #light #shall #stillness