Nurse: just another word to describe a person strong enough to tolerate anything and soft enough to understand anyone.
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Quotes
Abraham Lincoln quote: what he owes to his mother
Abraham Lincoln said: All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: veil of a softer light
Samuel Taylor Coleridge said: The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Martha Stewart quote: fossils of the sartorial world
Martha Stewart said: Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
Martha Stewart
Robert Browning quote: where love begins and ends
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Hooray for buttons day
May 9th is Hooray for Buttons Day, also known as Hurray for Buttons Day, which happens annually.
Rumi quote: what we are born of
Rumi said: We are born of love. Love is our mother.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
Rumi
Val Saintsbury quote: nurses care without prescription
Val Saintsbury said: Nurses dispense comfort, compassion and caring without even a prescription.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion and caring without even a prescription.
Val Saintsbury
Happy Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2020)
Happy Nurses Week from May 6th to 12, 2020! Cheers to one group of many Coronavirus COVID-19 care givers!!!
George Eliot quote: how life began
George Eliot said: Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
George Eliot
Adam Ant quote: what to do for mental health
Adam Ant said: Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant
Paulo Coelho quote: causes of stress
Paulo Coelho said: Stress, anxiety and depression are caused when we are living to please others
Stress, anxiety and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
Paulo Coelho
Glenn Close quote: what mental health needs
Glenn Close said: What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.
Glenn Close, Mental Illness: The Stigma of Silence
Lori Deschene quote: what you did at end-of-day
Lori Deschene said: At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.
At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.
Lori Deschene
Martha Graham quote: what is dance
Martha Graham said: Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
Patrick Süskind quote: the persuasive power of odor
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off; it enters into us like breath into our lungs; it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Alain Boucheron quote: woman on jewelry and fragrance
A woman wears both jewelry and fragrance and both recall happy moments of her life.
A woman wears both jewelry and fragrance and both recall happy moments of her life.
Alain Boucheron
Julius Morton quote: why Tree Appreciation Day is not like other holidays
Julius Sterling Morton said: Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Julius Sterling Morton
Jhumpa Lahiri quote: the thing about books
Jhumpa Lahiri said: That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Richard Neville quote: why marijuana is addictive
Richard Neville said: Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
Richard Neville
Henry Rollins quote: no reason to light up
Henry Rollins said: I have no interest in smoking marijuana, but I can’t see any reason to keep someone of age from lighting up.
I have no interest in smoking marijuana, but I can’t see any reason to keep someone of age from lighting up.
Henry Rollins
Willie Nelson quote: the best stress medicine
Willie Nelson said: The biggest killer on the planet is stress, and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
The biggest killer on the planet is stress, and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
Willie Nelson
Thomas Merton quote: what art does to us
Thomas Merton said: Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Anni Albers quote: what art is
Anni Albers said: Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
Anni Albers
Jackson Pollock quote: what painting is
Jackson Pollock said: Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
David Allen quote: where stress come from
David Allen said: Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.
David Allen
Steve Maraboli quote: what to do with stress
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
Steve Maraboli
Tao Porchon-Lynch quote: power over stress
Breath is the power behind all things… I breathe in and know that good things will happen.
Breath is the power behind all things… I breathe in and know that good things will happen.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
Hans Selye quote: what kills us
Hans Selye said: It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.
It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.
Hans Selye
Christopher Reeve quote: hope and possibilities
Christopher Reeve said: Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve
Wayne Dyer quote: what you can and cannot control
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
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