"Your illness does not define you...

...Your strength and courage does." I liked this quote; for me, it sounded like a description of me, how I felt. Unfortunately, too many of the pics I found had not included the actual speaker's name or had simply appended their own website.

I found:

• Speccy commented on a blog on 20 Feb 2012 using only the words from the first sentence. She said “Your disease is not who you are. Your illness does not define you. You're the one and only. Fabulous.” This entire comment wasn't shown in a pic.
• Wolfshowl on 8 August 2012 wrote a review of a book by Michael Scholfield and acknowledged the first sentence of this quote “Your illness does not define you” as a quote, but didn’t say who said it.
• Meegan Elizabeth, talking about fibromyalgia, copied from The Migraine Chef blogspot dated 2 September 2013.
• Lisa as clinical social worker wrote on 4 October 2013, quoted “Anonymous”.
• SoBadAss posted 5 February 2014, no name.
• BPD Healing and Hope posted on 2 April 2014, no name.
• 10 Minute Wellness posted on 10 April 2015, no name.
• Lymies Be Like posted on Twitter on 20 May 15 about Lymes disease, no name.
• Painted Teacup posted it as “Unknown” on 8 October 2015.
• Healthy Place, which is about mental illness, posted on 23 October 2015, no name. 
• Wrens Den on 17 November 15 quoted and copied a pic with link back to Healthy Place FB, which posted a similar pic on 30 December 2015, no name.
• Holistic Healthily, which is about pretty much any illness, posted on 9 December 2015, no name.
• Pro Health talks about Lymes, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and ME. Their website provided information about Rich Carson, who is the founder and CEO of this website because he has ME/CFS (diagnosed in 1981). Carson said "My personal philosophy about healthcare is that our illness doesn't define us, we define it." What Carson said was not exactly word-same as the quote on the heading of my blog, and didn't include the point about strength and courage. No date on this page but it’s under their “Our Story”.  Their page had the daisy in the blue sky pic, with no name on it but with the whole quote which appears at the start of my page. If it was definitely Carson, then they should acknowledge him on this picture – and ask for every person who has reprinted (and mostly referred back to Healthy Place, not Pro Health) to do so.

When someone says something which other people think is great, why shouldn't they - the original speaker - get global recognition? Who makes money on quotes from someone else, when they haven't acknowledged the person who said it? Have they ever offered payment to the speaker for whatever they said? For me, every quote which I find should be named, whether on internet pics or on cups or t-shirts or anything that can be sold.   

I know that many quotes can't be acknowledged unless there is evidence back to the person who said it, but every quote pic, or any product with a quote on it, must either have the name on it or, simply, "Anonymous" or "Unknown"! I appreciated Painted Teacup who posted it as “Unknown” and Wise Women Canada who posted their pic this time as “Anonymous”.

That is who it has to be for now.