Samuel Johnson Quotes

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

A woman's health is her capital.

Health is very important to me.

You can't take good health for granted.

Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

People play with pain all the time.

Fashions come and go, but good health is a treasure to keep.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

Health comes first before any bonus on offer.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?” He made no response. “The same amount of terrible?

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.