"Love means knowing when to let go."

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Source : Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

Tony Parsons

#Letting Go Quotes #Mean Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.”
“Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.”
“The women in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to the bathroom by herself, lie on her side or back, squat or kneel, or anything she finds comfortable, without fear of being scolded or embarrassed. Nor is there any need for her to be either 'quiet' or 'good.' What is a 'good' patient? One who does whatever she is told-who masks all the stresses she is feeling? Why can she not cry, or laugh, or complain?”
“Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.”
“The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.”
“Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.”
“The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.”

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