Curing Quotes (page 14)

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• you me
• different
• people

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it! Christopher Morley

• love
• sick
• sometimes

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt? Cornelia Funke

• rain
• she
• green

She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox. 'What's the trouble?' 'Look out there, that's the trouble! It's so green and quiet and it's always bloody raining.' 'That's England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I'm afraid there's no known cure for it. John Mortimer

• nature
• serious
• bed

The unluckiest of the Caribbean’s sick came, in search of cures: a poor woman who, since childhood, had been counting the beats of her heart so long that she had run out of numbers to count; a Jamaican who, because of the tormenting sound the stars made, never slept; a sleepwalker who rose from bed at night, and in sleep undid all the things he had done in waking; and many other ailments too, less serious in nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• short
• people
• help

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention. Penelope Fitzgerald

• sentimental
• sentimentality
• cured

One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments. Aldous Huxley

• literature
• manly
• mans

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. Samuel Lover

• fitness
• soul
• clothes

The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit. Anne Sexton

• bitter
• soul
• pain

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet. W. Somerset Maugham

• deafness
• yours
• tales

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. William Shakespeare

• nature
• mercy
• enduring

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. Margaret Mitchell

• compassion
• hard
• broken

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. Henri Nouwen

• mercy
• knowledge
• giving

Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?"The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less? J. R. R. Tolkien

• happy
• happiness
• medicine

No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• life
• management
• manager

Life's managed, not cured. Phil McGraw