"Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man."

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Source : Louis Nizer (2015). “My Life in Court”, p.254, Ravenio Books

Louis Nizer

#Educational Quotes #Men Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Real estate is at the core of almost every business, and it's certainly at the core of most people's wealth. In order to build your wealth and improve your business smarts, you need to know about real estate.”
“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”
“You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.”
“There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.”
“The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine. The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can't even begin to understand. Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.”
“It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.”
“I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.”

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