Lourdes Quotes

• New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

  Brendan Behan

  Funny, Spiritual, New York

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• I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Blessed, Thinking

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (1953). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Psychology

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• I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Giving, Analysts

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• Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Heart, Overcoming, Delight

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• The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

  Emile Zola

  Legs, Crutches, Difficulty

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• I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

  Mireille Mathieu

  People, Complaining, Lessons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mother, Religious

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• I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

  Paulo Coelho

  New Year, Years, Birth

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• I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

  Joyce Johnson

  Believe, Miracle, Catholic

  Joyce Johnson (1990). “Minor Characters”, Washington Square Pr

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• You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are your best friend, your confidant. 'You are,' as poetess Audre Lourde wrote, 'the one that you are looking for.' You are the only one who can do what you are looking for someone else to do.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Love You, Desire, Companionship

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 31, 2011

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• I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

  Joan Rivers

  Water, Luck, Type

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• You are the one that you are looking for.

  Audre Lorde

  Healing

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• We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

  Robert Hughes

  Wisdom, Australia, Evil

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• I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

  Bob Hope

  Men, One Line, Terrific

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• Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, Eye, Sick

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

  Joe Garagiola

  Thinking, Never Trust

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• It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

  Francois Mauriac

  Light, Sprung Up, Secret

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