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“If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to day experiencing in this bloody and butchering department of the healing art. I am more and more delighted with my profession.”

Ifs Persons Art Healing Degrees Profession Proof Enjoyment Department Bloody Surgery Day To Day Delighted Surgeons Adapted

Author:Joseph Lister

“If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.”

Ifs Heart Soul Joy Reading Healing Wise Flower Reader Strikes Brilliant Your Soul Demon Honey Bees Ardent Erudite Haughtiness

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.”

Ifs Feels Mean Stories Healing Growing Finished Feel Good Teens

Author:Chuck Wendig

“There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.”

People Ifs Children Hate Healing Police Agendas Hope And Love

Author:Jesse Jackson

“The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.”

Ifs Believe Kind Body Dies Healing Method Enormous Healed There Is Hope Healed You

Author:Marina Abramovic

“If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing.”

Ifs Needs Persons I Can Real Able Healing Forgiving Vulnerability Attachment

Author:Tara Brach

“Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only secondarily, if at all, from the larger organizations.”

People Ifs Knows Healing Support Couple Organization Primaries Enlightened Helpful Ministry

Author:Richard Rohr

“Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.”

Ifs Want Giving Persons Feelings Healing Advice Deeper Comment Tempting Another Time Giving Advice

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Sometimes when the spouse is really the culprit, it is hard to admit what you consider your little failures, but if you are going to have a better relationship, you admitting your part in the dynamics is a step in the road to healing. Because if they see you modeling apology, for example, and they see you modeling love, they may well get the idea that maybe they need to apologize.”

Ifs Needs Wells May Littles Ideas Sometimes Hard Healing Steps Example Apology Apologizing Spouse Modeling Admitting Dynamics Culprit

Author:Gary Chapman

“Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart years after the events transpired. And no good comes from that. These ghosts don't need us to help them stay alive. If we're after real deal healing, these ghosts must desiccate.”

Ifs Needs Giving Years Heart Real Helping Deals Healing Alive Happened Events My Heart Things Happen Ghost Empowering Brutal Dwelling Staying Alive Clout

Author:Joshua Mohr

“I was speaking to a writer the other day and he gave me a valuable piece of advice. He said that you may get to where you want to go quicker through violence, but the healing process takes longer. Whereas if you don't use violence, there is not much healing necessary, so you win in the long run.”

Ifs Want May Long Said Use Running Winning Process Healing Pieces Violence Advice Valuable Long Runs Healing Process

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Helping Wisdom Motivational Life Is Purpose Peace Goal Community Hurt Healing Humility Emotional Life Philosophy Buddhism Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Aim Caring Helping Others Buddhist This Life Meaning Of Life Holiness Prime Purpose Of Life Compassionate Volunteer Selflessness Comforting Monk Wise Man Once Said Service To Others Hurt Feelings Intricate Helping Hand Tibetan Facilitate Kindness And Compassion Meaning Life Tibet Being Hurt Been Hurt Helpfulness Religious Traditions Getting Hurt Compassion For Others Be Kind To Others Helping Others In Need Common Purpose Hurting Others Hurting People What Is The Meaning Of Life Hurt So Much Daily Buddhist Being Generous Got Hurt Hurting You Purpose And Meaning Hurt My Feelings Peace And Tolerance Others Helping You Greater Purpose Inspirational Healing What Is The Purpose Of Life I Was Hurt Silence And Peace Life Is Pain Hurt And Pain Our Purpose In Life I Hurt You Hurt Pain I Am Hurt He Hurt Me

Author:Dalai Lama

“As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.”

Ifs Mean Matter Healing Steps Disease Doctors Outcomes Resolution Crucial Physicians Diagnosis

Author:Andrew Weil

“If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.”

Ifs Healing Economy Doomed Diagnosis Personal Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.”

Ifs Purpose Strong Healing Mountain Sick Moved Accomplish Righteousness Deaf Healed Lame Strong Faith Healing The Sick

Author:David A. Bednar

“What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Said Ends Might Choices Fighting Healing Guilty Exploring Resentful Second Thoughts

Author:Philip Pullman

“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”

Ifs Healing Groups Guilt Response Strikes Chocolate Cake Association Celebration Prompts Chocolate Cake

Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.”

People Ifs Men Giving Art Ends Enough Care Pain Remember Courses Memories Loss Powerful Healing Taken Return Mountain Devil Army Notion Dust Hardship Ashes Enough Time God Is There Dust To Dust

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.”

Ifs Healing Blind Medicine Property Technique Trials Cease Alternatives Controlled Diamond

Book:A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

“Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Giving Ends Winning Peace Healing Destiny Buddhism Giving Up Yoga Expected Wellness Bad Karma Disheartened Self Reformation

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be”

Ifs May Shows Might Speak Hurt Grief Healing Fantasy Impossible Possibility Consolation

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

Ifs Light Past Community Healing Darkness Shame Wounds Spiritual Life Teens Our Past Erase Inner Darkness

Author:Brennan Manning

“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.”

Ifs Shows Games Results Healing Anger Transformation My Favorite Block Fake Frustration Being Authentic Frustration In Life Anger And Frustration Anger Frustration

Author:Jason Mraz

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

Ifs Healing Regret Cycles Riding Bike Touring Bicycle Riders Cycling Bikers Biking Riding A Bicycle Cyclists Bike Riding Mountain Biking Riding Your Bike

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The Atonement of Jesus Christ and the healing it offers do much more than provide the opportunity for repentance from sins. The Atonement also gives us the strength to endure "pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind," because our Savior also took upon Him "the pains and the sicknesses of his people" (Alma 7:11). Brothers and sisters, if your faith and prayers and the power of the priesthood do not heal you from an affliction, the power of the Atonement will surely give you the strength to bear the burden.”

“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)”

Ifs Pain Healing Awareness Judgment Mercy Definitions Physical Health Dismay

Author:Stephen Levine

“No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.”

Ifs Thinking Said Seems Pleasure Results Healing Intention Wounds Disclosure

Book:The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.”

Ifs Believe Persons Process Healing Magic Mouths Medicine Get Better Involvement Swallowing Popping Healing Process

Book:Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Source: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

“Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.”

Ifs Healing Wise Words Worthy Revenge Wounds Vengeance Healed Concentrating Not Worthy Payback

Author:Adeline Yen Mah

“Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.”

Ifs Looks Mean Two Sometimes Evil Sides Healing Medicine Staff Snakes Venom Ambulance Hermes

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!”

“It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.”

Ifs Knows Should Firsts Hard Evil House Speak White Healing Talking Path Saws Flower Proud Fairs Standing Queens Unhappiness Steel Doom Lilies Maidens Eowyn White Flowers

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja n’aurai ni quan, Qu’en lieys es tota le mercés Que·m pot sorzer o decazer.” “Not dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I don’t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power.”

Ifs Knows Pain Healing Dying Mercy Amor Sickness Pot Decay No Pain Grans

Author:Deborah Harkness

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

Ifs Book Reading Found Inspiring Healing Havens

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?”

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.”

Ifs Desire Fall Healing Ill Recovery Get Well

Book:The Spiritual Poems of Rumi

Source: The Spiritual Poems of Rumi

“And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.”

Ifs Mind Littles Process Memories Forget Healing Determination Desperate Unconscious Spite Much Love Healing Process

Book:The Thorn Birds

Source: The Thorn Birds

“I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.”

Ifs Knows Stills Loses Healing Dangerous Baseball Bats Bike Knocking Knack

Book:Something from the Nightside

Source: Something from the Nightside

“I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.”

Ifs Needs Trying Believe Ideas Might Healing Audience Share Expectations Response Vulnerable Good Ideas Tied Unmet Needs

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

“The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.”

Ifs Way Firsts Heart Healing Steps Kindness Listening Truth Is Arise Intimacy Breathing Vulnerability First Steps

Book:True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

Source: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

“For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.”

Ifs Healing Taught Committed Acknowledgment

Book:Mornings in Jenin

Source: Mornings in Jenin

“My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. "...temper in check. She's a sweet girl," Belen said. "She's a healer, Belen. And no longer a girl. Healing Ryne is all I care about. All you should care about, as well. You know-" "Yes, I know what's at stake." Belen spat the words. "But if you raise your hand to her again, I'll rip your arm from its socket.”

Ifs Knows Should Wells Said Hands Care Girl Healing Sweet Arms Raises Checks Stakes Temper Cheeks I Care Caves Rip Healer Spats Sweet Girl

Book:Touch of Power

Source: Touch of Power

“I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Heart Feelings Interest Love Is Pleasure Healing Share Influence Sorrow Please Offers Resent Unfaithful Interest In Life

Book:L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more

Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more

“My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.”

Ifs Thinking Soul Suffering Easy Healing Sick Think Of You Sweetheart I Think Of You My Sweetheart

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.”

Ifs Heart Faces Healing Break Ice Breakup Cream Ice Cream Break Up Break Your Heart

Author:Frank Ocean

“If you don't do your dance, who will?”

Ifs Healing Dance

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.”

People Ifs Want Mean Matter Home Enjoy Healing Demand News Forgiveness Forgiving Response Good News Heartfelt

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.”

Ifs God Hands Healing Comfort Lonely Sick Embrace Heal Frightened Theologian Comforting Healed

Author:Dorothee Solle