Cleansing Quotes - Page 7

• While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.

  Stephen Colbert

  Race, Skins

  "Obama Won Last Year Only Because Stephen Colbert Dropped Out!". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Clouds, Heaven, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.92

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• The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the most radical and intransigent manner. This is what Alain Badiou has just done in Almagestes, where he puts language on trial with an intention
  of cleansing, of catharsis.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Done, Trials, Way

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• Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

  Dionne Warwick

  Sadness, Feeling Sad, Tears

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• Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing. You don't want to kill your darlings or, maybe it's the opposite: you just want to kill all of it with cleansing fire. Let someone else confirm or veto your feelings. They'll also bring new questions and complexities to the table, too.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Fire, Opposites

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• Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

  Dick Gephardt

  Self, Support, Democracy

  Source: patch.com

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• In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Agreement, Holocaust

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Salt water is cleansing, be it sweat, the ocean, or tears.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Ocean, Sweat, Water

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Animal, Thinking, Vegetarian Diet

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• Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Emotional, Catharsis

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• I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Years, Iraq

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• As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.

  Sloane Crosley

  Art, Doctors, Definitions

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• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Frustrated, Important

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• Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Religious, Self Esteem, Communication

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• To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought 'I am' is the polishing cloth. Use it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Simple, Reality, Mirrors

  "I Am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1973.

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• Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

  Leon Brown

  Pain, Healing, Process

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Air, Feet

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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• I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.

  Erlend Loe

  Fun, Believe, Mean

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.135, Canongate Books

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• It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Two, Chocolate, Would Be

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Holocaust, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

  Chris Martin

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

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• I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

  Harold Evans

  Real, Bosnia, Saws

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Strong, Pain

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• She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

  Arundhati Roy

  Furniture, Genocide, Threat

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.28, Penguin Books India

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• I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)

  Storm Constantine

  Writing, Week, Refreshing

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