"Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain."

-- Judith Owen

#Pain Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.”
“What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.”
“I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.”
“A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner. It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.”
“My inner goddes has her sequins on and is warming up to dance the rumba.”
“They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.”
“Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.”
“And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.25, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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