"It doesn’t matter what the disease is. There is always room for hope. I’m not going to die because of statistics. I hope you won’t either." (Bernie Seigel)
"The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth, little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance, little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union." (Marilyn Sewell)
"Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain." (O Carl Simonton)
"It is possible that the scream comes from the forsaken body, the scream that manifests in a symptom is the cry of the soul that can find no other way to be heard. If we have lived behind a mask all of our lives, sooner or later -- if we are lucky -- that mask will be smashed." (Marion Woodman)
"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones." (Proverbs)
"…the body is a landscape of truth-telling." (Linda Hogan)
"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred." (Walt Whitman)
"People, and even animals, who believe that their actions have no effect on the outcome of a situation, that they have no control over their world, are more prone to illness." (Mike and Nancy Samuels)
"The question you must ask yourself is not if you will heal but how you will heal." (Ken Nerburn)
"Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body." (Cyril Connoly)
"…no part of the body lives apart from the rest." (Deepak Chopra, Perfect Health)
"The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves." (Wayne Muller)
"How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself." (Charles Lamb)
"The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well." (Hippocrates)
"Wellness starts here, with the recognition that your body is wise, your mind is wise, and your soul is wise." (Regina Sara Ryan and John W. Travis)
"Healing is not something we only do when we are sick; it is part of the process and journey of life." (Ted Kaptchuck)
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no on thinks of changing himself." (Tolstoy)
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change." (Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield)
"Nothing is so dear as what your about to leave" (Jessamun West, The Life I really lived)
"The dark night of the soul…is a metaphor for the sense of emptiness felt by those who have broken their ties with conventional sources of value, but have not yet discovered their grounding in new sources. (Carol P. Christ, Diving Deep and Surfacing)
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another." (Antole France)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead)
"The brain can grow nerve cells at almost any age in response to novelty and change." (John White, The Meeting of Science and Spirit)
"New vistas of unspeakable wonder are opening up before us. Humankind is on the verge of the incredible." (Michael Talbot)
"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." (Victor Hugo)
"It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise." (Nancy Thayer)
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
"Nature's mighty law is change." (Robert Burns)
"Children need models more than they need critics." (Joseph Joubert)
"There is only one smartest dog in the whole world and every boy has it." (author unknown)
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." (James Baldwin)
"Too often an abandoned child is one who is still living with his parents." (author unknown)
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." (Picasso)
"…In their early years few children experience a high degree of appropriate visibility from adults." (Nathaniel Branden, Honoring The Self)
"Children are gifts, if we accept them." (Kathleen Tierney Grilly)
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself." (Kahil Gibran)
"Those who have the humility of a child may find again the key to reverence for, and kinship with, all of life." (J. Allen Boone)
"Childhood decides." (Jean Paul Sartre)
"The child is father to the man." (William Wadsworth)
"Whence come I? I come from my childhood, I come from childhood as from a homeland." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde)
"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." (Carl Jung)
"The lost child cries, but still he catches fireflies." (Ryusui Yoshida)
"Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask yourself a crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use." (Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda)
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." (Joseph Campbell)
"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." (George Eliot)
"Creative choice is your birthright. Please own it." (John Bradshaw)
The person who does not make a choice makes a choice." (old proverb)
"The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer." (Henry Clay)
"Whenever two ways lie before us, one of which is easy and the other hard. one of which requires no exertion while the other calls for resolution and endurance, happy are the men who chooses the mountain path and scorns the thought of resting in the valley. These are the men and women who are destined in the end to conquer and succeed." (Author unknown)
"Destiny is not a matter of choice, it's a matter of choice." (Author unknown)
"We can never have enough of that which we really do not want." (Eric Hoffer)
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." (Emerson)
"Kinship is healing; we are physicians to each other." (author unknown)
"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of the continent, a part of the main." (John Donne)
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." (Anais Nin)
"Each man can learn something from his neighbor; at least he can learn to have patience with him- to live and let live." (Charles Kingsley)
"Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say; I have made at least one human being, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day." (Charles Kingsley)
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." (Robert Louis Stevenson)
"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow Wilson)
"Large- scale success today is spelled -Teamwork." (Charles B Forbes)
"We are like the spokes on a wheel, all radiating out from the same center. If you define us according to our position on the rim, we seem separate and distinct from one another. But if you define us according to our starting point, our source - the center of the wheel - we're a shared identity. (Marianne Williamson)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.". (Margaret Mead)"Who is wise? He who learns from all men, as it is said, from all my teachers have I gotten understanding." (Ben Zoma)
"To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely." (Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)
"There are no mothers and fathers for grownups, only sisters and brothers."
(Shelden Kopp)
"Life expands or shrinks in direct proportion to ones courage." (Anais Nin)
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear." (Mark Twain)
"There are millions of Americans who are clever and fearless, but the trouble is they are only four years old." (author unknown)
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." (Vittorio Alferi)
"All glory comes from daring to begin." (Eugene F. Ware)
"Courage faces fear and thereby masters it." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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