Disease Recovery Quotes

#1. Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

Irene Tomkinson

#2. During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

Wayne Dyer

#3. Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

Murasaki Shikibu

#4. Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in recovery or death.

Henry E. Sigerist

#6. How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.

Selim Nurudeen

#7. I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

Jade Jagger

#8. I will trade my self-pity for hate. My guilt for cunning. My grief for the spirit of vengeance.

Rick Yancey

#9. There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.

Rachel Maddow

#10. I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.

Graham Nash

#11. My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it certainly made him look at the way he's living and how he's treating his body.

Cheryl Hines

#12. The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

Joel Silver

#13. Runners who attend a yoga class the day after a marathon are often amazed at the speed of their recovery; they are able to go up and down the stairs without pain and stiffness in short order.

Christine Felstead

#14. Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Craig Ferguson

#15. There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Malachy McCourt

#16. Only the English created a new England, settled not by subjects of the Crown resolved to live beyond the seas, but by pioneers and builders in a land of new promise.

Stephen W. Sears

#17. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

#18. Meditation is the single most powerful tool to aid recovery from disease and lead to a life of maximum health

Ian Gawler

#19. Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

Lauren Lapkus

#20. Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again.
Because the area in front of our faces is our most intimate zone. She drew a breath. This is why humans are the only romantic animal!

Miranda July

#21. I am not capitulating.

Eugene Ionesco

#22. Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

David Stafford

#23. To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Rachel Pollack