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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Patient

"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."

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Nancy Reagan Political Figure, First Lady
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"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."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"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."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"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."

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Janet Malcolm Journalist, Author
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."

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Alfred Adler Psychologist
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"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."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"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."

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Karl Abraham Psychoanalyst
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"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."

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