"Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind."
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"Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective."
"Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed."
"With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it."
"Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses."
"You just stay patient, that's all."
"Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break."
"He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons."
"I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve."
"The patient must combat the disease along with the physician."
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
"The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient."
"Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly."
"We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help."
"He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone."
"An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses."
"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself."
"Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness."
"We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease."
"Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves."
"When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult."