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    Lao Tzu
    “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    “If I were to add quotes, would anyone actually read them?”
    ― Self
    tags: humorous
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    Sue Klebold
    “The sad, scary truth is we never know when we (or someone we love) may experience a serious brain health crisis”
    ― Sue Klebold
    tags: brain-health, mental-health, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-stigma
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    Sue Klebold
    “The list of things I would have done differently if I had known more is long. Those are my failures. But what I have learned implies the need for a broader call to action, a comprehensive overview of what should be in place to stop not only tragedies like the one committed by my son but the hidden suffering of any child.”
    ― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Marcia Angell
    “Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.”
    ― Marcia Angell
    tags: chronic-pain, mercy, wisdom
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Talia Hibbert
    “I started feeling afraid of my own body, like it was a torture chamber I’d been trapped inside.”
    ― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown
    tags: chronic-illness, chronic-pain, illness, pain
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    Sonya Huber
    “I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.”
    ― Sonya Huber
    tags: addiction, chronic-illness, chronic-pain, chronic-pain-stigma, judgemental-people, opioid-use, opioids, pain-killer-pills, pain-management, painkillers, stigmatization, stigmatized
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    Jade Sharma
    “It is like walking down a street and every so often someone beats the shit out of you. You mostly heal, but some injuries just don’t, and then you go out and walk some more, and someone comes by and beats the shit out of you again.”
    ― Jade Sharma, Problems
    tags: chronic-illness, chronic-pain, illness, pain
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    Bernard Cornwell
    “I'm in pain all the time,' I said, 'and if I gave into it then I'd do nothing.”
    ― Bernard Cornwell, The Empty Throne
    tags: chronic-pain, uhtred
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    Sarah Todd Hammer
    “Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.”
    ― Sarah Todd Hammer
    tags: afraid, chronic-illness, inspirational, pain, paralysis, paralyzed, sick, weakness
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  • #14
    “If I only could explain
    how much I miss
    that precious moment when I was free
    from the shackles of chronic pain.”
    ― J. J. Toivonen
    tags: chronic-pain, chronic-pain-quotes, crps, invisible-illness
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  • #15
    “The stigma of chronic pain is one of the most difficult aspects of living with chronic pain. If you have chronic pain, people can sometimes judge you for it.”
    ― Murray J. McAlister
    tags: chronic-pain, judgemental-people, stigma
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    Jennifer Starzec
    “Nothing worked. This blazing pain seemed only to be getting worse.”
    ― Jennifer Starzec
    tags: chronic-illness, hopeless, illness, inspirational, life, pain
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  • #17
    “Aging, quite simply, is a loss of information.”
    ― David A. Sinclair, Lifespan: The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
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