"Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy."

-- Leonard Roy Frank

#Medicine Quotes #Astrology Quotes #Astronomy Quotes

“When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”

Source : Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.676, Delphi Classics
“It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.”
“The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.”
“When God has assigned you, He knows where and when to find you.”
“In Europe one needs to act â€˜as ifâ€™ â€“ as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty â€¦ The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.”
“We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.”
“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”
“I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!”

Source : Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres

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