#illness

I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to? ↗

— Curt Schilling

#comes #family #father #feelings #going

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#because #bother #host #i #i am

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#enjoy #i #illness #makes #part

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#causes #gulf #gulf war #illness #illnesses

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? ↗

— David Suzuki

#climb #continue #costs #enable #evolution

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#because #course #death #funny #funny things

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#anyone #even #had #highly #illness

If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me. ↗

— Bethany Pierce

#anorexic #bulimia #bulimic #depression #eating-disorder

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#caring-for-others #caring-loved-one #illness #parenting #sacrifice

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty