Illness Acceptance Quotes

You wonder, 'How could it possibly be me?' Well, of course it could happen to you. You have it. Then, of course, you wake up every morning, and you hope it's a bad dream. Then you wake up. I have cancer.

Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

When you are sick, you are sick. Period.

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

I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

The metabolic disturbances are now part of my life.

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.