Cures Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

  Antonio Porchia

  Believe, Soul, Suffering

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Roots, Medicine

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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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• Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

  John Dryden

  Jealousy, Proof Of Love, Medicine

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2923, Delphi Classics

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• The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stress, Self, Practice

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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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• Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Self, Order

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• There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Evil, Produce

  "Critical and Historical Essays: Volume II" by Thomas B. Macaulay, London: J. M. Dent and Sons, (p. 180), 1907.

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• Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

  Anthony Burgess

  Doctors, Physicians, Credit

  Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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• In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Doe, Stories

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

  Paul Davies

  Dream, Cancer, Understanding

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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

  Ovid

  Speak

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• Time cures one of everything-even of living.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Time

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• I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

  Shalom Harlow

  Concerts, Models, Ifs

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• Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

  George Alec Effinger

  Fine, Adolescence, Burial

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• Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  Ray Stevens

  Reality, Purple, Drug

  Song: Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasan, Album: Ray Stevens Box Set

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• In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Running, Dog

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

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• No pills gonna cure my ill.

  Robert Palmer

  Alcohol, Drug, Pills

  Song: Bad Case Of Loving You

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• The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Health, Medicine, Restoration

  Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1913). “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”

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• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Soul, Body

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