"Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship."
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"Time heals all wounds."
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"Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up."
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
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"It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive."
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"With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation."
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"I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS."
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"You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
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"Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."
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"If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill."
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"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."
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"I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need."
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"Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over."
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"It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . ."
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"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort."
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"The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine."
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"By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle."
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"Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights."
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"Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights."
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"You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around."
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