You’ve heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It’d go like this: You’d get the boss on the line and say, “Listen, I’ve been sick ever since I started working here, but today I’m well and I won’t be in anymore.” Call in well. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: purpose health work mental health illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Tolstoy's illness dried him up, burnt something out of him. Inwardly he seemed to become lighter, more transparent, more resigned. His eyes are still keen, his glance piercing. He listens attentively, as though recalling something which he has forgotten, or as though waiting for something new and unknown. —Maxim Gorky More about this quote Tags: history illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. —Jackie Mason More about this quote Tags: health sickness illness inevitibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house. —Louis C.K. More about this quote Tags: health children disease illness kids Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being considered or labeled mentally disordered — abnormal, crazy, mad, psychotic, sick, it matters not what variant is used — is the most profoundly discrediting classification that can be imposed on a person today. Mental illness casts the "patient" out of our social order just as surely as heresy cast the "witch" out of medieval society. That, indeed, is the very purpose of stigma terms. —Thomas Szasz More about this quote Tags: society stigma illness mental illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. —Charlotte Joko Beck More about this quote Tags: life joy illness fortune Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen. —Francine Pascal in Sam More about this quote Tags: milkshakes blood illness oxygen Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: love reality romance illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Tags: illness land sea Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email