"Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system."

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Norman Cousins

#Determination Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155
“A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.”
“History is as Old as My Grandfather”
“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
“The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 06, 2013
“... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.”
“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.”
“I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.”

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