Antidote Quotes - Page 6

• Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.

  Marianne de Pierres

  Believe, Self, Discipline

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Differences, Environmental, Making A Difference

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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• Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

  J. K. Rowling

  Might, Research, Professors

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• Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.892, Bantam Classics

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• Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Light, Soul

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.134, Bantam

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• we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

  Dean Koontz

  Laughter, Despair, Remains

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.150, Bantam

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• Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

  Irving Stone

  Poison

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• As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Suffering, Action

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.

  Susane Colasanti

  Order, Track, Storm

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.138, Penguin

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• When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor - then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ's shed blood chokes them into silence!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Real, Sacrifice, Blood

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• A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hope, Taken, Tired

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• Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Inspiration

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• Faith and hope are the antidote. Stay actively involved in manifesting your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in.

  Jewel

  Dream, World, Want

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• A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Moving, Home

  Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

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• The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

  Erwin Rommel

  Ideas, Done, Impossible

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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• For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Important, Negative

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• Resolving to influence and persuade others will require a degree of personal passion and a depth of caring that you are willing to express and act on. I can tell you this: it will make you feel very vulnerable. The only antidote is to believe you are after a worthwhile change and that you are likely to be the right one to lead this particular charge.

  Charlotte Beers

  Believe, Passion, Caring

  Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.239, Vanguard Press

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• To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

  Jason Silva

  Despair, Inspired, Existential

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Patience, Powerful

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• Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Despair, Enlightenment

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 08, 2014

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• I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Lust, World, Disease

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• In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

  Wesley Morris

  Apples, People, Use

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• [Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that are eating away at the solidarity of the human community.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Loneliness, Self

  Source: eppc.org

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• There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfactions. When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Distance, Adventure, Past

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