Chronic Illness Quotes

Chronic Illness Quote of the day

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

It is not easy to talk about a condition once dismissed as ‘the career women’s disease’. But women will continue to suffer until we realise the cost of ignoring it

Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?

I certainly don’t buy into the idea that positive attitudes can somehow mysteriously directly influence physical health outcomes.

By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?

Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS -

I am disabled but I'm not my disability. Disability is just a little piece of me but it is not my whole personality

My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

This was the first piece to the whole story—the beginning.

I could feel the bite of the autumn air, warning us all of the harsh winter that was on its way.

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.

Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.

Remember this: You are the expert of your body.

By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.

Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.

That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.

She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

What if...the doctors couldn't find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

If I only could explain How much I miss that precious moment when I was free from the shackles of chronic pain.

Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI

The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.

I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.

I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.