Healing Quotes Littles 1-100

“Fact is there’s nothing out there you can’t do, Yeah even Santa Claus believes in you.”
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~ The Muppets
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“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
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~ Rafiki from The Lion King
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“And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.”

~ Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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Hermey: Hey, what do you say we both be independent together?
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Rudolph: You wouldn’t mind my red nose?
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Hermey: Not if you don’t mind me being a dentist.
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Rudolph: It’s a deal.

.~ From the TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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“Whenever you feel like celebrating, that’s the perfect time for a tea party. (I often feel like celebrating.”

~ Jane O’Connor, Fancy Nancy Tea Parties,
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“The path through the woods became a magical journey. The two friends skied along in silence, stirred by the beauty surrounding them.
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When they stopped to rest, Puddle said, “I wish I could take this morning and put it in my pocket and keep it forever.”
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“Me too, ” Toot sighed. “It’s perfect.”
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~ Hollie Hobbie, Let it Snow
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Snow White: “So what do you do when things go wrong?

birdies: tweet tweet

Snow White: Oh, you sing.”

~ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Alice: “From the moment I fell down that rabbit hole I’ve been told what I must do and who I must be.

I’ve been shrunk, stretched, scratched, and stuck into a teapot.

I’ve been accused of being Alice and not being Alice, but this is my dream. I will decide where it goes from here.

Dog: If you diverge from the path…

Alice: I make the path.”

~ Alice in Wonderland.

“Alice you cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.”

~ The White Queen, Alice in Wonderland

“This is my life. I’ll do with it what I want.”

~ Alice, Alice in Wonderland)

“My father used to be able to imagine six impossible things before breakfast.

Going to defeat the jabberwocky/dragon:

Alice: Six impossible things, count them Alice.

1) There is a potion that can make you shrink.

2) And a cake that can make you tall.

3) Animals can talk.

4)  Cats can disappear.

5) There is a place called Wonderland.

6) I can slay the jabberwocky.”

~ Alice, Alice in Wonderland)
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What six impossible things can you believe in today?
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“One thing about trains; it doesn’t matter where you are going. What matters is deciding to get on.”

~ Conductor, The Polar Express.
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I have thought to arrive at some kind of final destination, but life is about the discoveries made on the journey itself. Though the journey has been hard, I have no regrets about the path we have chosen.
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~ Goliath, the Gargoyle, Gargoyles, episode 68, The Journey.
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Dad: “I think it’s time I told you something. I should have told you a long time ago.
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Po: Okay.
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Dad: The secret ingredient of my secret ingredient soup…
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Po: Oh!
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Dad: Come here, the secret ingredient is nothing.
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Po: Huh?
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Dad: You heard me, nothing. There is no secret ingredient.
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Po: Wait, wait,… it’s just plain noodle soup. You don’t need to add some kind of special sauce or something?
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Dad: For something to be special you just have to believe it’s special.
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Po: There is no special ingredient!
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~ Kung Fu Panda
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“Keep moving forward.”
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~ Meet the Robinsons
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“You are the Dragon Warrior.”
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from Kung Fu Panda
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“There is something you must always remember: You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
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~ Winnie the Pooh
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“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
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~ A. A. Milne, Christopher Robin Give Pooh a Party.
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“I don’t want to survive. I want to live!”
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Captain of the Axiom,  Wall-e
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“If you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.”
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Albus Dumbledore to Hagrid
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~ J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
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~ Mulan
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“I wonder whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own.”
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~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
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~ Rumi
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“Funny I guess destiny is not the path given to us, but the path we choose for ourselves.”
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~ MegaMind, MegaMind.
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“Today I declare my independence… from my family.”
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~ Stuart, Stuart Saves His Family
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“Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it.”
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~ Danny Kaye
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“God created the world in play.”
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~ Sri Ramakrishna
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“You know it may be hard to believe, with my obvious charm and good looks, but people used to think I was a monster. And for a long time I believed them. But after awhile you learn to ignore the names that people call you and you just trust who you are.”
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Shrek, from Shrek the Third.
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“Your strength gives me strength.”
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~ The Mummy.
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“Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
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~ Charles Schulz
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“And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up on yourself…”
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~ President Barack Obama September 8, 2009
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“The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four – of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.”
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~ Jim Trelease

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.”

~ Walt Streightiff
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“Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?”
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~ Anonymous
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“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
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~ Shakespear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Do you have a tail feather? Then shake it, my dear.
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~ Happy Feet 2

“You were born into a family that doesn’t always appreciate you. But one day things are going to be very different.”

~ Miss Honey, Matilda.

“And Matilda found, to her great surprise, that life could be fun and she decided to have as much of it as possible.”
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~ Matilda.
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“Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.”
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~ James Poland
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“Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.”
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~ Jim Butcher, Changes
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“We have three kinds of family. Those we were born to, those who were born to us, and those we let into our hearts.”
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~ Simi, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Moon Rising
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“Go show them how special you are.”
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~ Mildred, Meet the Robinsons.
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“Cookies are made of butter and love.”
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~ Norwegian Proverb
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“Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”
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~ Audrey Hepburn
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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
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~ Confucius
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“Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
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~ Julius Charles Hare
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“Do not wait for leaders– do it alone, person to person.”
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~ Mother Teresa
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“We’re made of more than we realize.”
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Christopher Reeve
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“There is more inside you than you dare think.”
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~ David Brower
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“Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you and when you’re ready you’ll drink.”
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~ Kabir
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“You are not here accidentally–you are here meaningfully.”
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~ Osho
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“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.”
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~ Jean Sibelius
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“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
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~  Les Brown
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“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”
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~  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
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~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
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“I have never been nothing. I am the blood of the dragon.”
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~ Daenerys, Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 9.
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“Your life is an occasion, rise to it.”
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Mr. Magorium, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
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“Your soul is rooting for you.”
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~ Unknown.
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“There are beautiful and wild forces within us.”
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~ St. Francis of Assissi
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“For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
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~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet.
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Galen (about his mother, Tanae):  “She knows I have ever striven to please her. I thought if I was good enough, strong enough, I could earn her love.
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Jessamyn: You have no need to please anyone, Galen. You are magnificent, if she can’t see that, then she is a fool.”
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~ Nalini Singh, Angel’s Dance, in the anthology Angel’s Flight
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
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~ Alice Walker
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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
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~ Audre Lorde
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“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
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~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“There is no right way, no pure way of doing it. There is just doing it.”
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~ Bruce Springsteen
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“By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
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~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
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~ Dr. Seuss
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
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~ Dr. Seuss
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
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~ W. Somerset Maugham
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“Books are the mirror of the soul.”
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~ Virginia Woolf
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Nina to Olivia: “You’ve had the most extraordinary gifts, but the only thing you were denied was knowing it. You’ve had the power all along.”
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~ Nina, Fringe, Brave New World Part 2, Season 4, Episode 22.
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
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~ Muhammad Ali
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“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
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~ Milton Erickson
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“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”
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~ Muhammad Ali
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“Big doors swing on little hinges!”
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~ W. Clement Stone
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“The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”
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~ Josephine Baker
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“One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.”
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~ Eric Butterworth
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“and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
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~ Kahlil Gibran
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“Inside us all playfully waiting, sits a tiny patient adventurous bird.”
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~ Freya Ete
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“Man is born to enjoy.”
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~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
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~ Albert Schweitzer
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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.”
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~ Milan Kundera
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“When we follow our authentic path with love, embracing our creative impulses, we live our truth even if what we think we are doing is just cooking a meal, nurturing a child, sewing a curtain, or closing a deal.”
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~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“You may have believed that seeking a spiritual path was all about submission, sacrifice, and suffering and that only the worldly path could provide fulfillment. Then, one morning you make the connection. It’s the reverse.”
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~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“Being your authentic self is the soul made visible.”
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~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
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~ Orison Sweet Marsden
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“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
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~ Thomas Merton
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
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~ Dalai Lama
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“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”
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~ Shakespeare
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“Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”
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~ Henry Van Dyke
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“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
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~ Chinese Proverb
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“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
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~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
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“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
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~ Hecato, Greek philosopher
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“I forgive myself for having believed for so long that…I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted.”
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~ Ceanne DeRohan

Healing Quotes Littles 101-200

“It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.”

~ Jo Coudert

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not “modesty”. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not “egotism”. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success”

~ Bobbe Somme

“You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they’re a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.”

~ Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

“There will always be someone poised to take advantage of the vulnerable; the very young, the very old, and the innocent of any age. Though I know this from long experience, I refuse to feel discouraged. In my own unassuming way, I know I can make a difference. You can as well.”

~ Kinsey, T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton

“When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound —- our own and others’ —- and it can finally heal.”

~ Desmond Tutu

“There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.”

~ George Sheehan

“Be with those who help your being.”

~ Rumi

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

~ Albert Schweitzer

“Drop the idea of becoming someone,  because you already are a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

~ Osho

“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”

~ Eckhart Tolle

“Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.”

~ Daisaku Ikeda

“A  feeling is not bottomless, once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there.”

~ Alanis Morrissette

“You doubt yourself. Don’t run from who you are.”

~ Aslan, Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

~ Ralph Charell

Everyone is gifted – but some people never open their package.”

~ Unknown

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

~ Confucius

“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

~ Chinese Proverb

“The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

~ Unknown

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

~ Jon Kabat Zinn

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

~  Viktor E. Frankl

“If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.”

~ Anthony J. D’Angelo

“There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself.”

~ Sam Kao

“The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.”

~Mario Fernandez

“Just one person taking action can inspire others to do the same.”

Healing Quotes Teens 1-100

In separateness lies the world’s great misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.
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~ Buddha
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Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.
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~ From the movie Pocahontas
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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~ Sri Ramakrishna
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Life was good enough, until one day it wasn’t.
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~ Pushing Daisies, Season 1 Episode 1. Pie-letta.
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>Humans need fantasy in order to be human.
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~ Terry Pratchett, The Hogfather.
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Then clear on a flute of purest gold
A sweet fairy played.
And wonderful fairy tales she told
and marvelous music made.
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~ Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will tell you. I came to live out LOUD..
~ Émile Zola
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Be home to yourself wherever you go.
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~ http://www.guesswhatnormalis.com/
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When I became a man, I put away childish things including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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~  C. S. Lewis
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Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.
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~ Karen Healey
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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~ Malcolm Forbes
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The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.
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~ Mat Kearney
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(The arts) are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
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~ Kurt Vonnegut
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We are all much more than we think we are.
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~ Lao Tzu
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We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
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~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Learn to pause… or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
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~ Doug King, poet
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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~ William James
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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~ Thomas Merton
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All the arts we practice are apprenticeships. The big art is our life.
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~ M. C. Richards
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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~ Ralph Marston
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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
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~ Proverb
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I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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~ Diane Ackerman
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Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, the bar eats you.
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The Cowboy, The Big Lebowski
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Art is not just ornamentation, an enhancement of life, but a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional, a map to self-discovery.
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~ Gabrielle Roth
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I am an artist– my work of art is my life.
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~ DT Suzuki
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You have a creative contribution to make. Your life and mine, will be better if you do.
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~ Michael Toms
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
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~ Bliss Carmen
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It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
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~ Pablo Casals
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The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
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~ Leo Buscaglia
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Peter Marshall
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I am the captain of my soul.
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~ William Ernest Henry
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The object of meditation is to still the mind – and the fastest way to do that is to move your body.
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~ Gabrielle Roth, on The Inner Wave, the third video in Gabrielle Roth’s Ecstatic Dance Series.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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~ George Eliot
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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~ George Eliot
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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~ Gandhi
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Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
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~ Nido Qubein
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The best way out is always through.
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~ Robert Frost
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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 ~ Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774
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Ride, boldly, ride.
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~ Edgar Allen Poe, Eldorado
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Move forward with purpose.
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~ Dream Chaser by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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~ Seneca
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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One man with courage makes a majority.
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~ Andrew Jackson
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Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.
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~ Anita Roddick
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Every flight begins with a fall.
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~ George R.R. Martin, from the book Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire.
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to living as she plays [the piano] it will be very exciting, both for us and for her.
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~Reverend Beebe, from the movie A Room With a View
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Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.
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~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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~ Marcus Aurelius
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Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.
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~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
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~ Sogyal Rinpoc
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
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~ Henry David Thoreau
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The mind’s first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
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~ George Sheehan
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.
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~ Friedrich Nietzche
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Each body has its art…
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~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.  Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around…. Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
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~Larry Dossey
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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
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~ Anna Quindlen
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I believe in the magic of books… Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.
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~ Cecelia Ahem
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books! Best weapons in the world. This room is the greatest aresenal we could have. Arm yourself.
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~ Dr. Who
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A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.
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~  President Lyndon Baines Johnson
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If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
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~ John Waters
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new.  But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.  There is more security in the adventurous and exciting,  for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
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~ Alan Cohen
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When your heart speaks, take good notes.
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~ Judith Campbell
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Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.
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~ Salvador Dali
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Remember to always be yourself.
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Unless you suck.
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~ Joss Whedon
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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~ Abraham Lincoln
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You are not a beggar at the table of life. You are the honored guest.
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~ Emmanuel
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Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.
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~ Muhammad Ali
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The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
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~ John Maxwell
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Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. There are as much for you as they are for other people.
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~ Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You)
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The greatest change you can offer the world is the change within yourself.
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~ Kaje
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
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~  John Andrew Holmes Jr.
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One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement.
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~ John O’ Donohue
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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~ James Thurber
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Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.
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~ Claire Fagin
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I always thought someone should do something about that, then I realized I was someone.
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~ Lily Tomlin
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Stephen King
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Be bold. If  your going to make an error, make a doozey, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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~ Billie Jean King
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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
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~ Robin Williams
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.
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~ May Sarton
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Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.
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~ H.L. Mencken
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Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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~ John Wooden
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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~ James Joyce
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Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
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~ Henry Ford
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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~ Samuel Beckett
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than the life spent doing nothing.
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~ George Bernard Shaw
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The  way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
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~ Henry Ford
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Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
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~ John C. Maxwell
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
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~ Henry Ford
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Information does not change behavior. Practices do.
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~ Richard J. Leider
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He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
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~ Thomas Fuller, M.D.
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It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
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~ George Eliot
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe in, is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
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~ John Ruskin
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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~ Albert Schweitzer
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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~ Al Gore
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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~ Golliver

Healing Quotes Teens 101-200

“Your life is your message to the world.”
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~ Lorrin L. Lee
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“Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.”
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~  Melody Beattie
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg.”
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~ C. S. Lewis
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“Every flower must grow through dirt.”
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~ Anonymous
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“You  can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
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~ Stephen King
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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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~ Rumi
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“It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.”
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~Marian Wright Edelman
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“To love oneself is the beginning of lifelong romance.”

~ Oscar Wilde
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“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.”
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~ Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
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“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.”
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~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
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~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
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~ Frank Tibolt
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.”
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~ André A. Jackson
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“If you want to be different, do something different.”
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~ Wynton Marsalis
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“Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.”
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~ Saadi
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
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~ J. Lubbock
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“Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.”
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~ Julia Cameron
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“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
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~ Toni Morrison in Song of Solomon
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.”
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~ William Gibson
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“Group conformity scares the pants off me because it’s so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn’t want to – or can’t – join the Big Parade… Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.”
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~ Bette Midler
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“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were big things.”
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~ Kurt Vonnegut
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“You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.”
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~ Eckhart Tolle
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“Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence.”
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~ Byron Katie
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“Love life, engage in it, give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”
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~ Maya Angelou
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“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
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Erin Majors
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“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”
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~ Emily Dickinson
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“Look, I want to love this world as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive and know it.”
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~ Mary Oliver
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“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and humility and slips. It is hard work, and slow work, but it can be thrilling to watch it take shape.”
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~ Sarah Hepola
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“There are thousands of paths. They all lead nowhere.
You must ask yourself one question: ‘Does this path have a heart?’
If it does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.”
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~ Don Juan
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“What is Christmas?
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal,
and that every path may lead to peace.”
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~ Agnes M. Pharo
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“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making.
It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things.”
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~ J.C. Penney
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
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~ Harriet Tubman
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“When I was in grade school, they told me to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment; I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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~ Unknown
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“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.”
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~ Richard E. Byrd
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“The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means you can invent the language to say who you are and what you mean.”
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~ Toni Morrison
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“Dum spiro, spero (Latin), ‘While I breathe, I hope.”
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~ Latin Proverb
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“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
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~ William Faulkner
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“I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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~ Dr. Seuss
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“To practice any art no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
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~ Kurt Vonnegut
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“Everyone must row with the oars he has.”
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~ English Proverb
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“A possibility was born the day you were born, and it will live as long as you live.
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~ Marcus Solero
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“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
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~ Denis Waitley
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“Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
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~ Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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“Do not bring people in your life who bring you down. And trust your instincts… Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. It’s not just with somebody you want to marry. But it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourself with.”
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~ Michelle Obama
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“Student says, ‘I am very discouraged. What should I do?’
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Master says, “Encourage others.”
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~ Unknown
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“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
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~ Louise L. Hay
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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
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~ Maya Angelou
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“You can be the ripest juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”
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~ Dita Von Teese
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“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”
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~ Astrid Alauda
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“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come,
I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds,
cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything
in me that is bewildered and confused.”
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~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.”
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~ Marlene Dietrich
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“Will looked horrified. ‘What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
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~ Cassandra Claire, Clockwork Angel
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“Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.”
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~St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) Patron Saint of Journalists.
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“No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.”
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~ John O’Donohue
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“This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take it from you. If only you will accept yourself. Reclaim your body—your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It’s all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back.”
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~ Jean Hegland
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“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
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~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
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“Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it’s about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn’t perfection. The point is doing it anyway.”
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~ Chloe Neill
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“Whatever you are physically,’ he said, ‘male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy – all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.”
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~ Cassandra Claire, Clockwork Angel
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“you see, i believe that turning inward is not a selfish task. and, silence & solitude, while they may be difficult, are not the enemy. they are, in fact, the journey. the foundation. the connection. the inspiration of how to live life. amazingly & sometimes surprisingly, turning inward gives me my most powerful connections with humanity.”
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Liz, solitude, at just be. love all. live life.
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“I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there’s something far better beyond where we are at the moment.”
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~ C. JoyBell C.
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“Let someone love you just as you are. As flawed has you might be, as unattractive as you might feel, as unaccomplished as you might think you are; let someone love you just as you are. And let that someone be you.”
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~ Sandra Kring
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“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
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~ David Levithan
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“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”
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~ Alan Cohen
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“The right people will find their way into your life. These are the people who will love and accept you wholeheartedly and without conditions. These are the people who matter. Let go of the rest.”
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~ Daniell Koepke
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“You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else’s movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.”
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~ David Niven
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“The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified and pick yourself. It doesn’t mean you have to be an entrepreneur or a freelancer, but it does mean you stand up and say, ‘I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.”
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~ Seth Godin
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“It’s not ever easy to be yourself in a world full of people who might not accept you for who you are. Just remember that although there will be people who don’t accept you for who you are, there will also be people who accept you for exactly who you are. Those are the people that matter. Those are the people that count. Not only will they accept you, they will love you unconditionally for your beautiful and unique self. Never lose faith or hope in those people. They are your kindred spirits, the mates of your soul. They are out there. You will find them and they will find you. Believe in that, and never give up. They need you just as much and you need them…”
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~ Acoustic Imagery
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“When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.”
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~ Victor Hugo
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“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds the house, but the reader makes it a home.”
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~ Jodi Picoult
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“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
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~ Virginia Woolf
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“Don’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend’s copy. What’s important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.”
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~ Neil Gaiman

“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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~ Jane Austen
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“Lots of books make me cry. I get so involved in them, and I care so much, and there is so much beauty and brokenness and nobility in us. It’s overwhelming.”
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~ John Green, 23rd January 2013
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“Who are we, who is each of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
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~ Italio Calvino
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“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.”
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~  Thomas Carlyle
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“Knowing you have something to read before bed is one of the most pleasurable of sensations.”
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~ Vladimir Nabokov
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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
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~ George R.R. Martin ~ A Game of Thrones
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“Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.”
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~ Helen Gurley Brown
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“A reader lives a thousands lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only one.”
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~ George R.R. Martin
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, the imagination, and of the heart.
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~ Salman Rushdie
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As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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~ Malcolm X
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“Come give us a taste of  your quality.”
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~ William Shakespeare
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“We are all capable of much more than we think we are.”
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~ Lao Tzu
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“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself.”
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~ Andre Gide
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“Always be a ‘work in progress.”
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~ Emily Lillian
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“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.”
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~ Jean Houston
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“An original is hard to find but easy to recognize.”
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~ John Mason
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“March to the beat of your own drummer.”
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~Henry David Thoreau
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“Don’t go with the flow you are the flow.”
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~ Sugi Tanaka
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“Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.”
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~ Pablo Casals
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“Each of us has a spark of life inside us and we must set off the spark in one another.”
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~ Kenny Ausubel
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“Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.”
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~ Rembrandt
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“In summer, the song sings itself.”
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~ William Carlos Williams
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“When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.”
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~ Nathaniel Branden
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“What I want people to realize is that there is enough inside them, that everything that they really need in order to feel a sense of aliveness and creativity is already inside. And not only is it inside them, but if they allow it they will have an interesting life.”
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~ Michele Cassou
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“The big art is our life.”
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~ M.C. Richards

Healing Quotes 1-100

Whatever is behind us and whatever is before us are tiny matters compared to what is within us.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

~ Roald Dahl

I celebrate myself and sing myself.

~ Walt Whitman

I found God in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.

~ Ntozake Shange

It’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can’t you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

~ Iyanla VanZant

I did then what I knew how to do. When I knew better I did better.

~ Maya Angelou

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, but it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

~ Agnes Repplier

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail.

~ Adrienne Rich

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

~ Adrienne Rich
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“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
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~ Albert Camus
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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~ Anais Nin

You know what I figured out? … You can’t go back, can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.

Eve Dallas from the book Witness in Death by J.D. Robb

Learning to tolerate feeling good is one of the nicest parts of healing.

From The Courage to Heal.

Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live in difficult times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to us. There are other forces at work in this world besides that of evil.

From “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings” by J. R. R.Tolkien, the great mythology trilogy about the triumph of good over evil.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

~ St. Francis

Addressing our individual and collective suffering, we will find ways to heal and recover that can be sustained, that can endure from generation to generation.

~ bell hooks

It is human longing that makes us holy.

~ John O’Donohue

I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.

~ Sahara

Let the beauty that you love be what you do.

~ Rumi

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

I would like to be known

as an intelligent woman,

a courageous woman,

a loving woman,

one who teaches by being.

~ Maya Angelou

Let the beauty you love be what you do.

~ Rumi

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

For all these years you’ve protected the seed. It’s time to become the flower.

~ Stephen C. Paul

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today the way you are.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are a child of the universe, no less than the moon or the stars; you have a right to be here.

~ Max Ehrmann

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

~ Richard Bach

When you are going through hell, don’t stop.

~ Winston Churchill

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
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~ Susan Griffin
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I need to take an emotional breath, step back and remind myself who’s actually in charge of my life.
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~ Judith Knowlton
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.~ Abraham Lincoln
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A point worth pondering. Upon completing the Universe, the Great Creator pronounced it, “very good.” Not “perfect.
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~  Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The way out is through the door you came in.
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R. D. Laing
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You are the expert on your life. Honor your own truth.
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From The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis.
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To find your own way is to follow your own bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where the real deep bliss is–  not the quick little excitement, but the real, deep, life-filling bliss.
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~ Joseph Campbell
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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~ Herman Mellville
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I am never afraid of what I know.
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~ Shakespeare
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And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance I hope you dance.
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~ Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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~ Martha Graham
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I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.
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~ Sahara
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Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.
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~ Alexandra Stoddard
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All of us know about learning life’s lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.
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~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shame filled in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
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~ Louise Bogan
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One of the biggest gifts you can give the world is a healed life.
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~ Dr. Christianne Northrup
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A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today the way you are.
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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~ Rumi
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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
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~ Buddha
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Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
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~ Ursula K. Le Guin
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do– not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do is increased.
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
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~ Abraham Lincoln
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
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~ Kahlil Gibran
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Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.
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~ Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
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The most healing instrument of all is your own voice.
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~  C. W. Child
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Once she’d been a victim– helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.
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~ J.D. Robb from Reunion in Death
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Woman commenting on how odd it was that a toy train changed her life.
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Man: Anything can change a life, in a life that’s ready to be changed.
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~ Holiday Affair, a movie.
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There is no greater gift than friendship.
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~ Santa in The Polar Express
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It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
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~ Unknown
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A recent study showed that people who submerged their hand up to the forearm in icy cold water were able to endure it longer when they were allowed to curse than when they could only repeat a neutral word. The findings suggest that swearing relieved pain.
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Light the candle and curse.
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~ Kate
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Roarke, speaking to his wife Eve, about her abusive parents:
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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.
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J.D. Robb in Kindred in Death
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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~ Ferdinand Foch
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. but when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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~ Audre Lorde
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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.”
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~ Muriel Rukeyser
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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
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~ Wendell Phillips, abolitionist and orator.
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Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.
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~ Harvey Fierstein
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Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can’t prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you’re presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice, and the choice can be power.
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~ Blaine Lee
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Sorrow comes in great waves.. but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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~ Henry James
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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~ Barbara Sher
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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.
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~ Anais Nin
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river move in you, a joy.
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~ Rumi
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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~ Helen Keller
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
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~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?
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~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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Revolution begins in the self and with the self.
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~ Toni Cade Bambara
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When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
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~ Barbara Bloom
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If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
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~ Walt Whitman
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.
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~ Friedrich Nietzche
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Each body has its art.
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~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I stand in awe of my body.
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~ Henry David Thoreau
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The body is a sacred garment.
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~ Martha Graham
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Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.
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~ Gabrielle Roth
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If you don’t do your dance, who will?
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~ Gabrielle Roth
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One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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~ Maya Angelou
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A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.
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~ Stephan Hoeller
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It ain’t where you came from, it’s where you are going that counts.
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~ Ella Fitzgerald
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It is a happy talent to know how to play.
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every moment presents a new opportunity and a new decision.
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~ Shakti Gawain
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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~ Alice Walker
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On of the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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~ Virginia Woolf
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We are the hero of our own story.
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~ Mary McCarthy
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Our bodies are our gardens– our wills are our gardeners.
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~ William Shakespeare
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Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
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~ Tori Amos

Healing Quotes 101-200

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

~ Anais Nin

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

~ Annie Dillard

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expresssion of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story.

If you just set people in motion, they’ll heal themselves.

~ Gabrielle Roth

Hope begins in the dark.

~ Anne Lamott

The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.

~ Anna Quindlen

What is life for? Life is for you.

~ Abraham Maslow

Listen to your life.

~ Frederick Buechner

The sun shines not on us, but in us. The river flows not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber  and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.

~ John Muir

Life is playfulness. We need to play so we can rediscover the magic all around us.

~ Flora Colao

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

~ W. H. Auden

Art is not just ornamentation, an enhancement of life, but a path in itself, a way out of the predicatable and conventional, a map to self-discovery.

~ Gabrielle Roth

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

~ Kahlil Gibran

If we are lucky, if we manage to find good support systems among our families, friends, and subsequent therapists, or havens such as the TELL network, and most important, if we can locate those places inside ourselves that are strong, then ultimately the lessons we learn from our abusers will not be those they set out to teach us.  Instead, we will have learned honesty from the dishonest, sensitivity from the insensitive, mental health from the perverse, and kindness from the unkind.

And, we need not be grateful to those teachers.

~ Jan Wohlberg at Tell: Therapy Exploitation Link Line

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves your love and affection.

~ The Buddha

Fall seven times,
stand up eight.

~ Japanese Proverb

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The best way out is always through.

~ Robert Frost

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

~ Robbie Gass

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

~ Nelson Mandela

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Here in this body are the sacred rivers; here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places… I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.

~ Sahara

A bend in the road is not the end of the road.

Unknown

In difficult times always carry something beautiful inside.

~ Blaise Pascal

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not trying to put it into a fruit salad.

~ Anonymous

We can learn a lot from trees: they are always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.

~ Everett Mamor

If I keep a green bough in the heart, the singing bird will come.

~ Chinese Proverb

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

~ John Muir

This the last of human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

~ Viktor Frankl

The stars are always there, even in the day time. Sometimes you just don’t see them.

~ Anonymous

What we play is life.

~ Louis Armstrong

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

~ Jean Houston

The problem is to be open enough and safe enough at the same time.

M.A. Mathieu

Try again and again with self-forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

SARK

Play a little; it will change your life a lot.

~ Julia Cameron

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

~ Julia Cameron

Heroism isn’t achieved by remote control.

J. D. Robb in Purity in Death.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

~ Claudia Black

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out into the open, into the light, out of the darkness.

~ Reba McIntire

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

~ Tori Amos

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

~ Sydney Smith

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I will take the ring, though I do not know the way.

Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.

~ Tori Amos

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.

~ Henri Nouwen

Make the most of yourself… for that is all there is of you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

~ Socrates

Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny.

~ John O’Donohue

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

~ Richard Bach

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

~ Emily Dickinson

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

~ Yoko Ono

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

~ Margaret Fuller

To heal from the inside out is the key.

~ Wynonna Judd

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

~ Lindsay Wagner

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like, healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

~Maggie Gyllenhaal

All healing is first a healing of the heart.

~ Carl Townsend

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.

~ Anais Nin

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern– it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that… one stitch at a time, taken patiently.

~  Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you really listen to yourself, you can heal yourself.

Ceanne Derohan

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back– to have a sense, an understanding of all that’s gone to make them– before they can go forward.

Paule Marshall

What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.

~ The Buddha

Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your own.

Alice Koller

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as you find you can do anything, do something you can’t.

~ The Old Law

To keep a lamp burning we have to put oil in it.

~ Mother Teresa

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing– that’s why we recommend it daily.

~Zig Ziglar

When we honestly ask ourselves which people in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that is is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

~ Henri Nouwen

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You’re the one who has to take charge of who you are, you’re the one who has to take control. And also, you’re the one who can bring something to the community.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Plunge deeply into the thick of life.

~ Goethe

I would believe only in a god who could dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well.

~ Martha Graham

If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.

~ Emma Goldman

Living well is a courageous act.

Alexandra Stoddard

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is
probably the hardest task we’ve ever attempted.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is
not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.

~ Sue Bender

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

~  Henry David Thoreau

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.

~ African proverb

Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house, a world, and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then that world exists for you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I dreamed the other night of music boxes hidden all over my garden. I
think of us as music boxes– beautiful and full of music… especially
when we open up.

~ Sark

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

Marge Piercy

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

~Lao Tzu

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

~ Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.

~ Unknown

An angel can illuminate the darkest path.

~ Kathryn Schein

We all hold each others’ souls in our hearts’ centers, and if you
temporarily lose sight of your soul, or can’t locate it, someone can help
you see it.

~ Sark

Others are deeply touched by you, even when you don’t realize it.

~ Sark

As we move through our lives, we will all be taught by our pain. Let’s
remember that pleasure is essential too.

~ Sark

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

~ Thomas Moore

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

~ Spanish proverb.

Stories are signposts to help the world choose between the darkness and the light.

Arago, “The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne”

Until lions start writing down their own stories, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

African Proverb, (The Courage to Heal, pg. 409).

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Marion Wright Edelman

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

William James

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

~ C. S. Lewis

Every person must believe in something. Try believing in yourself for a change.

~ Sefra Pitzele

Healing Quotes 201-300

Do not be too timid and squemish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A counsel of perfection is very easy advice to give, but it usually quite impractical.

~ Maxwell Knight

Taking a moment to take it easy is being a friend to yourself.

~ Friendships, a book on healing and friendship.

To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

~ Sir John Lubbock

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.

~ Richard Jeffries

It is sweet to let the mind unbend.

Horace

Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There are still noble adventures to undertake. There are still trees that speak and caverns that lead to nether realms. There will always be faeries and elves within nature because they will always be dancing in our hearts.

~ Ted Andrews

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

~ Gaston Bachelard

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

~ Claudia Black

Make your own recovery the priority of your life.

Robin Norwood

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind you change your experience.

~ Serge Kahili King

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.

Sonia Choquette

Do things to make your day precious.

~ Bernie Siegel

We are ourselves our happiness.

~  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Speaking on the topics of her cancer, her medical insurance, and the struggles of other women with cancer and inadequate medical insurance and other disparities in our society:

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn’t we go around fixing them?

~ Elizabeth Edwards

Interview on The Rachel Maddow Show, July 22, 2009.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

~ Anna Freud

When happiness shows up, always give it a comfortable seat.

Feziwigg, in The Christmas Carol.

Everybody gets angry. It’s perfectly normal, but we cannot allow anger to drive the bus. Anger has to sit in the back of the bus, or at the very least it needs to stay behind the yellow line. Because anger is… a terrible driver.

Dr. Julie Waterford, marriage counselor, Monk, episode Monk Gets Married.

In my own life, I know what it’s like to have your judgment, your sense of security undermined by your parents. Because they were hiding a truth or denying it to themselves. You can survive that.

Detective Goran, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, episode 34, Suite Sorrow.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Henri Frédéric Amiel

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around… Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

~ Larry Dossey

My theory is that everyone, at one time or another, has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who’s different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

~ Alice Hoffman

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

~ Maya Angelou

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

~ Anais Nin

Wherever you are is the entry point.

Kabir

Kabir says this: just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

~ Kabir

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

Kabir

One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find.

George Sand

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

~ Tennessee Williams

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.

~ Unknown

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way  to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very good therapist.

Karen Horney

Live so the poems can find you.

~ Patti Digh

Create your own tribe.

Four Word Self Help, by Patti Digh.

If you don’t have a test, you won’t be able to have a testimony.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

Go deep within yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Rainer Marie Rilke

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

~ e.e. cummings

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

You are alive and that is the only place you need to be to start.

~ Carrie Rainie

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

~ Maria Robinson

Think of the world you carry within you.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Miss Owen and Miss Burney asked me if I had ever been in love, “with myself,” said I, “yes and most passionately.”

Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)

Deep in their roots every flower keeps the light.

~ Theodore Roethke

He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.

~ Anacreon

There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now near fearfully neglected.

~ George MacDonald

Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious, part of a pattern.

~ Luci Shaw

You have been warned against letting golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

~ J. M. Barrie

Repetition creates the master.

~ Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer.

Whatever you do take one more step out of your comfort zone.

~ Jackie Hudson, Catholic nun and activist.

It is easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

~ Acheron, from the book Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love myself when I am laughing. And again when I am looking mean and impressive.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That is the beginning of social protest.

~ Audre Lorde

One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.

~ Katrina vanden Heuvel

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

~ Dorothy Allison

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

~ Gloria Steinem

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

~ Gloria Steinem

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

~ Merle Shain

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it.

John O’Donohue, Anam Cara.

We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

~ Tim Robbins

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

~ August Wilson

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

~ John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong.

You can’t talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

Dr. Cornell West

One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.

~  John O’Donohue

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we’re going. And get the job done.

~ Wilma Mankiller

Let me listen to me and not to them.

~ Gertrude Stein

Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

~ Joan Borysenko

There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.

~ Linda Grayson

Peace– that was another name for home.

~ Kathleen Norris

To be happy, one must find one’s bliss!

~ Gloria Vanderbilt

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

~ Julia Child

Our duty is to keep moving forward, to keep fighting.

~ From the movie Battle: Los Angeles.

Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush.

~ From Archangel’s Kiss by Nalini Singh.

[She thinks], I failed twice. If I failed twice I’m going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It’s just a learning experience. It’s an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life… Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

~ Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer, Season 3, Episode 3 (Imaginary Walls).

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tonight I’m going to shower  and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

~ Rafer Johnson

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life – reciprocity.

~ Confucius

That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. ‘Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?’

~ Mary Oliver, from the foreword of her book Long Life: Essays and other Writing.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

~ Mark Ruffalo, environmental activist, actor.

I have found that I can only give from what I have. My own “bucket” must be full to be able to “dip in” and share with others. If I am “empty”, there is nothing to give. So being good to yourself is a way of being good to others.

Granny, blogger of The Village Granny, commenting on my post Healing Quotes Littles 58

Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn’t have believed possible.

~ Archangel’s Blade by Nalini Singh

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

~ Frank Zappa

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

~ Maya Angelou

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

~  Jorge Luis Borges

A library is a hospital for the mind.

~ Anonymous

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

~ Mark Twain

Do not read as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

~Gustave Flaubert

Books break the shackle of time, proof that humans can work magic.

~ Carl Sagan

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled: “This could change your life.”

~ Helen Exler

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.

~ Kathleen Norris

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

~ Harper Lee