"What we are not changing, we are choosing."

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Source : David Richo (2014). “How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration”, p.43, Paulist Press

David Richo

“But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?”
“The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.”
“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”
“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant, the knowledge and confidence of the young mother, and a voice for those too weak to speak.”

Source : "A Virginia Henderson Reader: Excellence in Nursing".
“If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.”
“Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.”
“I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.”
“For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.”

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