Cures Quotes - Page 15

• Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

  Samuel Smiles

  Evil, Political, Reform

  "Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic". Book by Timothy Travers, 1987.

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• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Success, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3497, Delphi Classics

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• The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Medicine, Perfect, Degrees

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• I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

  Irving Stone

  Book, Mental Illness, Knows

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• [T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Magic, Politics, Wave

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• I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Dry Up, Comfort, Population

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont (1968). “Tocqueville and Beaumont on social reform”

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• Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

  John Dos Passos

  Apathy, Complicated, Intense

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• Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Reality, Trying

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

  Bernie Siegel

  Healing, Recovery, Foundation

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• Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Compassion, People

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

  John Aubrey

  Kings, Hands, Noses

  John Aubrey (1857). “Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects”, p.128

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• A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Husband, Being The Best

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• We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Faults, Disaster, Dismayed

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• The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crime, Blunders, Blindness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Perception, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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• Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Winning, Men, Self

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• The cure to your self is that you are not yours.

  John de Ruiter

  Self

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• Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Suffering, Despair, Standards

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3101, e-artnow

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• Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Desperate, Relieved

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Depression, Witty

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• When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Mistake, Taken

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

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• Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

  George Carlin

  Apathy, Today, Scientist

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• It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

  Ovid

  Speak

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• A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

  Ovid

  Thousand

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Cutting, Men, Unhappy

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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