Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself.

— T.F. Hodge

Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.

— Nancy S. Mure

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

Don't say that," he said harshly. Rowan studied Lily for a long time. "Do you know what it means to be a survivor? It means that not only do you have to live through things, you have to live with them as well. The second part is much harder, and sometimes it takes the rest of your life to learn how to do it. But at least you have the rest of your life, Lily. And that's what's important to me."" Oh, I'm alive," she said ruefully, "Even if I am damaged."" You'll heal," Rowan replied confidently.

— Josephine Angelini

Dream: I look for Lama Lord Kay teacher friend hearing he's ill & I'm ill, too - I enter his room, and he says "I've been trying to find you - I wanted you to know illness is just phenomena

— Marc Olmsted

Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.

— Steven Magee

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

— Holly Robinson

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

— Norman Cousins

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

— Bernie S. Siegel

Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his life. Every time he reminded her that he couldn’t be saved, Esther’s heart broke a little more.

— Krystal Sutherland