"People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery."

-- Florence Nightingale

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“Writing is the same as music. Itâ€™s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you donâ€™t play is as important as what you do say.”
“It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.”
“Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.”

Source : Mary Tyler Moore (2009). “Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes”, p.11, Macmillan
“it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.”
“I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.”
“I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”

Source : Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.113, Macmillan
“Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.”
“I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.”

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