Hidden Illnesses Quotes

“But it was almost as though physical illness brought a magic therapy that had eluded me for years. Soon after my diagnosis, the psychological issues that had plagued me for most of my adult life just melted away.”
― Barbara Alldritt, Ya Gotta Laugh

“The most important lesson, or at least the one I see affecting my response to the world most often, comes from a deep understanding that there is nothing to fear in death.”
― Barbara Alldritt, Ya Gotta Laugh

“I once heard that all reactions to life could be summed up in one of three words every child knows: yikes, yum and yuk. The 100,000 other words in the English language are just refinements and explications of the basic emotions conveyed by these three words. “Yikes” expresses the primary negative but protective emotion of fear; “yum” and “yuk” are the simplest ways to express the fundamental judgments of good and bad which underlie all of life’s experiences.”
― Barbara Alldritt, Ya Gotta Laugh