"The harder the life, the finer the person."

-- Wilfred Thesiger

#Life Quotes #Harder Quotes #Persons Quotes

“why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me ...”
“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.”
“All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.”
“Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.”
“Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.”
“I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.”
“When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.”
“I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.”

Source : "Love, Medicine & Miracles". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1984.

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