Health
Quotes - Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are
“From
the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner
circle of advisers, and teams of physicians assiduously disguised the state of
his health, promoting the fantasy of a robust leader who was always in excel-
lent physical condition for a man his age. Severe heart disease was not admit-
ted until twenty-five years after his death, and then only as part of a new and
larger cover-up to conceal other severe medical problems. These deceptions
still dominate the present-day narrative of Franklin’s health, especially so in
his later years.”
―
Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote
History
“Be
okay with having health-essential boundaries.”
―
Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants,
Transition and Transformation
“Be
patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a
calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile:
"The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who
Fail to Try.”
―
Jess C. Scott, Clear: A Guide to Treating Acne Naturally
“By
choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You
are beautiful!”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“It's
never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human
spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of
light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When
we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something
deep within us rebels.
We
don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge
sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. (p. 174-5)”
―
Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“It’s
a humbling realization that sometimes what we think we want may not align with
what God knows we truly need.”
―
Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants,
Transition and Transformation
“Surgeons
can cut out everything except cause.”
―
Herbert M. Shelton
“By
overcoming biases - be it through a closer and more honest examination of
ourselves, deeper self-knowledge, an understanding of the patterns of thoughts
and behaviors we experience, or any other method - we can undo these mental
blocks and reignite a passion for honest, genuine, and will-intentioned
discourse.”
―
Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an
Increasingly Divided World
“God
had been orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes for years, and I
had no clue.”
―
Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants,
Transition and Transformation
“Find
people who are fighting the same illness that you are.”
―
Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants,
Transition and Transformation
“1
billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are
overweight.”
―
Mark Bittman, Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75
Recipes
“When
you can cultivate a sense of self-awareness that extends beyond your own
subjective experience, you have the opportunity to study your behaviors from an
objective vantage point.”
―
Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an
Increasingly Divided World
“This
has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what
they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing
in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over,
maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very
happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and
playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was
beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it. For example,
while I was writing this I learned that the person on whom the character Jerry
Fabin is based killed himself. My friend on whom I based the character Ernie
Luckman died before I began the novel. For a while I myself was one of these
children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play
instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is
a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each.
Drug
misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in
front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in
judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error,a
life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now
because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and
the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of
the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is
only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. "Take
the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a
mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.
There
is no moral in this novel; it is not bourgeois; it does not say they were wrong
to play when they should have toiled;it just tells what the consequences were.
In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which
means causal law. Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any
one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but, as I narrate
from the deepest part of my life and heart, a dreadful Nemesis for those who
kept on playing. I myself,I am not a character in this novel; I am the novel.
So, though, was our entire nation at this time. This novel is about more people
than I knew personally. Some we all read about in the newspapers. It was, this
sitting around with our buddies and bullshitting while making tape recordings,
the bad decision of the decade, the sixties, both in and out of the
establishment. And nature cracked down on us. We were forced to stop by things
dreadful.
If
there was any "sin," it was that these people wanted to keep on
having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel
that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only
in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial
cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my
love:
To
Gaylene deceased
To
Ray deceased
To
Francy permanent psychosis
To
Kathy permanent brain damage
To
Jim deceased
To
Val massive permanent brain damage
To
Nancy permanent psychosis
To
Joanne permanent brain damage
To
Maren deceased
To
Nick deceased
To
Terry deceased
To
Dennis deceased
To
Phil permanent pancreatic damage
To
Sue permanent vascular damage
To
Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage
.
. . and so forth.
In
Memoriam.
These
were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the
enemy will never be forgiven. The "enemy" was their mistake in
playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.”
―
Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
“Want
a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to
fit in.”
―
Brandon Mull
“Weight
(too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use
food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even
with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to
flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so.
It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way -- and
you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. (p. 53)”
―
Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“FDR
Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with
prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand
information from multiple physicians - even a shocking admission by Eleanor
Roosevelt to actress Veronica Lake that her husband was being treated for the
disease.”
―
Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote
History
