Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Koblin

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

Daniel Johns

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

E. M. Forster

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

Anne Sexton

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Janet Jackson

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

Booker T. Washington

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

Benjamin Franklin

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Deb Caletti

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Charles Dickens

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

Barry Lopez

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

Bill Cosby

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Bill Cosby

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

C. S. Lewis

If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Blake Mycoskie

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

Chris Crutcher

...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

Bill Crawford

When dealing with problems, seek not to "change" some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.

Bernadette Peters

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

Kimberly Williams

I think her healing was prayer. She is one of God's miracles.

Chris Reed

I loved ginger; I've always recognized its tremendous healing power,

Mike Imoh

It hurts not being out there. Things just weren't healing right, though. So I didn't have a lot of choice, really.

Carl Jung

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

Carl Jung

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

Charles Colson

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

Bill Hybels

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.