One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

—Robin Norwood

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About Robin Norwood

Robin Norwood (born July 27, 1945) is the author of the international best-selling book, Women Who Love Too Much as well as Letters from Women Who Love Too Much, Daily Meditations for Women Who Love Too Much (illustrated by Richard Torregrossa) and Why Me? Why This? Why Now?. Robin Norwood...

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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

—Rabbi Harold Kushner

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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

—Quentin Crisp

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Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

—Peter McWilliams

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When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

—Peter McWilliams

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