It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
It's so weird to have someone tell you you're sick when you feel really healthy and good.
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.