“Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.”— Vironika Tugaleva Related Quotes “Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can begin in the body and affect the mind, both of which are served by the same bloodstream. Attempts to treat most mental diseases as though they were completely free of physical causes and attempts to treat most bodily diseases as though the mind were in no way involved must be considered archaic in the light of new evidence about the way the human body functions.”— Norman Cousins “You mustn’t bury yourself alive, forget to rise up, or bind yourself to the dust in melancholy surrender.”— Oddný Eir “And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.”— Colleen McCullough