Every symptom has a story to tell about your life. A fascinating story, that can reveal the complex links between your body, mind, emotions and spirit. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter