“The USA health care system really sucks!”
“Reality comes in many different flavors.”
“Depressed? Welcome to my world.”
“You are stronger than cancer beat it”
“My message to Boeing is this: I am watching you.”
“Better to be rich and sick than poor and healthy because I have health insurance..”
“I am the most famous scientist that you have never heard of.”
“An innovative spirit, long a core characteristic of American medicine, is as strong or perhaps even stronger as ever.”
“A further sign of health is that we don t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it s time to stop struggling and look directly at what s threatening us.”
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you ll die of a misprint.”
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm s way.”
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84)”
“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
“When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at finding experts and programs, at striving and trying hard and then harder to change yourself, but this process only reaffirms what you already believe about yourself -- that your needs and choices cannot be trusted, and left to your own devices you are out of control (p.82-83)”
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.”