“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
—Laozi
Each of us only needs one thing: a heart beating within us that’s free of blame, contempt, irritation, and ill will toward others. Therefore, every act that makes you irritated with people and distances you from them rather than bringing you closer to them is a waste.
—Leo Tolstoy
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
—Carl Jung
“Holy men would prefer life-long sickness to willful sin.”
“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet, and sickness to be borne with patience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
—Blaise Pascal
Accept everything bad that happens to you the way a sick person takes medicine. Medicines are bitter & distasteful, but a sick person takes it happily & is glad it exists. In the same way, be glad when trials & afflictions are sent to you, knowing that they’re of use to your soul
—Leo Tolstoy
Write to me and don’t be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I’ll break your head.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I’ll be able to endure it.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
—Seneca
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
—Plato
To be troubled for grosser sins and have no trouble for ordinary sins daily incurred is an ill sign of a bad heart.
—John Flavel
We don’t know what is before us, but if we have received Jesus Christ, let storms come, let deaths come, let sickness come, let pestilence come, we are sure of life beyond the grave.
—D. L. Moody
There is a blessing in serious illness. The blessing is that when the body weakens, you feel your soul more fully.
—Leo Tolstoy
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
—Sigmund Freud