CM Punk Quotes

Malaria in Africa did not come from bad governance. It came from bad mosquitoes.

The mosquito has killed more people than anything else in history.

Early in my career, I was galvanized by a disease that ravaged my country and many others around the world: malaria.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

Most people think, "Life sucks, and then you die." I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, and then all of the sudden you have a stroke. You can't move your right side. And then, maybe, you die.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.