A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

— Shannon L. Alder

Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.

— Edie Littlefield Sundby

A chronic invalid has, but one thought about his identity: He doesn't want to be a sick man. The rest of the discussion seems frivolous to him-an immense privilege of the healthy. Still, I'm a novelist, and so I pursue it.

— Nancy Horan

A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion".

— Vivian Amis

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

— Boethius

An apple a day feeds the tapeworm to stay.

— Brian Spellman

.and though my internal organs were Barry White, my stamina had skipped CDs and decided to be more Vanilla Ice.

— Matthew Williamson

Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult body.

— Colleen M. Flanagan

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

— Criss Jami

As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.

— Edgar Saltus