#cure

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cure #only

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#cure #few #few things #hot #i

The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#sadness #the-sea #water #tears

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of her heart on the building of his expectations. But then wasn't it his fault that he had constructed the building of glass? Hadn't he failed to cement the bricks of his love with trust and colour them with security? There was no insurance for broken hearts, no ointment for wounded souls and there would never be one, he knew. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#fate #love #trust #life

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attractiveness #compassion #comprehensive #defamation #discernment

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cures #depression #depression-humor #modern-life #humor

My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul is to be killed, in an act of true love, by the one who loves me most.. ↗

— Bree Despain

#true-love #love

there’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, “Let me take care of you forever,” and I have never heard it spoken before.Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself,especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely . . . ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#romance #secure #love

Oblivion cures the old wounds. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#cures #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #oblivion