Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1861

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. – Plautus

Wellbeing starves addiction. – Terri Guillemets, “Better,” 2007

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy