Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
- Topic: Health, Pain
- Location: Lake Tahoe
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
Work is love made visible.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.
The cure is, is worse than the disease.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.