#heal

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. ↗

— Melita Norwood

#cost #could #defeat #did #education

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#closeness #cure #distance #heals #know

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ↗

— Novalis

#heals #inflicted #reason #wounds

All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on! ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#caring #chance #clearly #conditions #equal

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.' ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cherish #comprehensive #creation #dared #education

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #among #attack #britain #collectors

I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can. ↗

— Catherine O'Hara

#come #doing #effort #face #good

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#adult #deal #drink #fat #great

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#call #care #dealing #education #extremely