Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.
I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget.
Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
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.
The body says what words cannot.
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
This card is sent to cheer you As you're confined to bed I'm sure it'll feel all worthwhile In the happier days ahead.
Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
New Zealand is a place where you can get well.
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