Ailments Quotes:

The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

- Lori Lansens

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Wonderful, Ailments, Wonderful Places

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

- Jonathan Swift

source: 'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 1 February 1711

topic: Literature, Affection, Ailments

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Justice, Long, Community, Social Responsibility, Spiritual Community

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Joy, Man And Superman, Joy Of Living

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happy, Generation Gap, Fulfillment In Life

True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.

- Christiane Northrup

source: Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.38, Hay House, Inc

topic: Pain, Moving, Thinking, Positive Change, Change Your Thoughts

We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.

- Pope Francis

topic: World, Body, Extinction, Stewards, Disfigurement

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

- Yehudi Menuhin

topic: Years, Practice, Medical, Ailments, Homeopathy

When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

- Thomas Dreier

topic: Life, Hurt, Thinking, Longer Life, Ailments

As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe ***** is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that ***** is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

- Bill Frist

topic: Pain, Believe, Marijuana, Dangerous Drugs, Medical Marijuana

Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.

- L. Ron Hubbard

topic: Past, Men, Hands, Arthritis, Ailments

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.

- Alonzo Mourning

topic: Hurt, Dealing With It, You Hurt Me, Ailments

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

- Patrick MacGill

source: MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

topic: Cutting, Perfect, Attention, Ailments, Immune

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

- William Christopher Handy

topic: Eye, Names, House, Dismay, Department Stores

Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress.

- Virchand Gandhi

topic: Spiritual, Practice, Breathing, Spiritual Progress, Ailments

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

- Kim Campbell

source: Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

topic: Doctors, Government, Modesty, Prescribing, Ailments

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

- Alan Jay Lerner

topic: Criticism, Theatre, Coughing, Respiratory, Ailments

There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

- Christopher McDougall

topic: Motivation, Stress, Inspiration, Subculture, Ailments

In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.

- B. J. Palmer

topic: Quality, Adjusting, Causes, Ailments

Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire generation of Americans. It's the true red menace.

- Arthur Jones

topic: Sports, Eye, Thinking, Dodgeball, Ailments

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

- Ole Hallesby

topic: Prayer, Doctors, Firsts, Ailments

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol E. Clark (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Way by Swann's”

topic: Doctors, Doubt, World, Refutation, Ailments

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

topic: Motivational, Happiness, Laughter, Man And Superman, Joy Of Living

You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303

- Diane Setterfield

topic: Rain, Loss, Emotional, Living Conditions, Tuberculosis

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

topic: Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity, Ailments, Artificial

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Writing, Blessing, Thinking, Light Hearted, Ailments

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

- Peter S. Beagle

source: Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

topic: Rocks, Secret, Unicorn, Ailments

His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Coffee, Headache, Used, Ailments

Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

- George Washington

source: Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

topic: Love, Passion, Growth, Ailments

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

- Richard Hofstadter

source: Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

topic: Strong, Too Much, Beast, Inarticulate, Resourceful

My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man.

- Frederick William Robertson

topic: Christian, Men, Soul, Concealment, Ailments

Yoga is for everyone. Personally I believe yoga would benefit anyone's life. It is such an amazing form of exercise and if you practice regularly it really slows your mind down and it helps you to get perspective. It keeps you incredibly fit and really flexible. It helps prevent ailments because you're working all the body.

- Jayne Middlemiss

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Believe, Yoga, Exercise, Ailments

I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.

- Richard Dreyfuss

topic: Memories, People, Want, Ailments, Manic

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

- Emmitt Smith

topic: Football, Pain, Player, Aches And Pains, Ailments

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

- Michael Lee-Chin

topic: Successful, Jamaica, Building, Commercial Banks, Ailments

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Running, Feet, Sound, Ailments

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Giving, Flaws, Crime, Procreation, Ailments

A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Retirement, Half, Hours, Ailments, Half Hours

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

- Wilson Mizner

topic: Heart, Greed, Humans, Pitiful, Ailments

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

- Charles Rosen

topic: Epilepsy, Anxiety, Grace, Ailments

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

- Ihara Saikaku

source: "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.

topic: Physicians, Four, Poverty, Malady, Ailments

He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never rea be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop pain or suffering, but rather a teaching that goes to the source of pain and eradicates it.

- George Ohsawa

source: "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 81, 1994.

topic: Pain, Teaching, Thinking, Ailments

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Honesty, Believe, Heart, Ailments

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Years, Cities, Air, Cities And Towns, Farmland

On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies, resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever, without missing a beat.

- Paul P. Enns

topic: Perfect, Forever, Missing, Ailments

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

- Israel Regardie

source: Israel Regardie, Marc Allen (2013). “The Art of True Healing: The Unlimited Power of Prayer and Visualization”, p.9, New World Library

topic: Men, Affliction, May, Course Of Life, Ailments

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

- Carre Otis

source: "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

topic: Doctors, Flu, Antibiotics, Sore Throat, Prescriptions

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.

- Virgilia Peterson

source: Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

topic: Art, Divorce, Fever, Genealogy, Sudden Death

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

- Bahá'u'lláh

topic: Recovery, Men, World, Ailments

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

- Carl Jung

topic: Patient, Nonsense, Select, Crocodiles, Ailments

When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.

- Amartya Sen

source: "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

topic: School, Issues, People, Ailments

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

- Richard Paul Evans

topic: Cures, Certain, Trade, Ailments