Healing Quotes - Page 26

• Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Heart, Exercise

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.77, Om Books International

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• After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

  J. K. Rowling

  Hair, Wind, Sky

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• "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Anathema, Carried Away

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.

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• Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Mind, Her Beauty, Standards

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• I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.

  Rumi

  Watches, Rising, Descent

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Flower, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Autumn, Soul, Seasons

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• ... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

  Laini Taylor

  Taken, Chocolate, Would Be

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• There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Deep Thought, A Loss For Words, Left

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.43, Vintage

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• Advent creates people, new people.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  People, Advent

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.40, Westminster John Knox Press

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• From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who sent the Christmas card describing her eighteen-year-old son's incarceration as 'a short break before college?' A woman. Who remembered to include batteries at the bottom of each stocking? A woman. And who gets credit for pulling it all off? Santa.That's right. A man.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Son, Dark, Men

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• If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough . Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer : yourself.

  Glennon Melton

  Writing, Worry, Calling

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Fun, Real, Drinking

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• I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

  Sara Sheridan

  Ideas, Tradition, Celebrate

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• So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy for all people." That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

  Walter Wangerin

  People, Joy, Shepherds

  Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.107, Zondervan

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• Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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• Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Stress, Law Of Attraction, Laughing

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• The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Even more remarkably, this healing is not just our own healing, it is the healing of all women. That's why, as we tell our stories to ourselves, it is also important to share them with others. This sharing brings a sense of kinship, of sisterhood. We understand that we are not alone in our efforts to become conscious, whole, healthy persons.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Writing, Simple, Sisterhood

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• We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Conservative, Medical, Healed

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• I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

  Diane Chamberlain

  Life, School, Soul

  Diane Chamberlain (2014). “The Silent Sister”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.

  Kris Carr

  Acceptance, Body, Embrace

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• Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Powerful, Giving, Imagination

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• Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Stars, Memories, Children

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