"Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing."
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"I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful."
"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal."
"What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree."
"I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read."
"A house that has a library in it has a soul."
". . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts."
"Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it."
"Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease."
"The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
"Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right."
"Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you."
"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."
"Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends."
"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood."
"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."
"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
"Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth."
"You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live."
"When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun..."