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Healing Quotes - Page 28

A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.136

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Team Human”, p.27, Harper Collins

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.14, Penguin

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.14, Beacon Press

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Laura Lippman (2009). “What the Dead Know: A Novel”, p.21, Harper Collins

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.92, Grove Press