Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Think... of the world you carry within you.

Michael Pollan

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

Norman Cousins

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

Norman Cousins

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

Neil Gaiman

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

John the Apostle

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Mariel Hemingway

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

May Sarton

... love is healing, even rootless love.

Maya Angelou

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

Martin Schulz

Without new money, salaries wo n't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they wo n't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay.

Lisa McMann

And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

John Stuart Mill

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

John Robbins

Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision.

John Robbins

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Martin Luther

I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.

Martin Luther

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Marilyn Hacker

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Mariska Hargitay

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

Mariska Hargitay

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

Mariska Hargitay

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Sheryl Crow

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

Sherry Argov

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

Nicolas Cage

More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.

Nicholson Baker

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

Nora Roberts

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

Nora Roberts

Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

Nastassja Kinski

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

N. T. Wright

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.