Association of Youth With M.E. - Support, news and information for children and young people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Overton Studios Trust - Information and a number of resources for sufferers from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Post Viral Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.
ME Association - Practical help is offered by this organisation, including information on benefits and other sources of assistance.
Support ME - Established by a recovered ME/CFS sufferer. Aims to provide information on the latest research, message boards and support group information.
Action for ME - Information about myalgic encephalomyelitis from national charity campaigning to improve the lives of people with the condition. Includes an appeal for volunteers.
David Mason Brown - ME sufferer gives information and offers workshops.
Jan Brumfitt - Former ME sufferer explains how she cured herself, and offers counselling and advice.
Colchester M.E. Self Help Group - Registered charity providing information, and encouraging self-help and mutual support. Events and contact information.
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Chronic Fatigue Syndrome People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Chronic Fatigue Syndrome A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Chronic Fatigue Syndrome If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Chronic Fatigue Syndrome We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
