#heal

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country. ↗

— Charlie Norwood

#aged care #been #care #country #fact

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

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom

I eat very clean, healthy food at all times because I'm very focused about keeping myself in shape. ↗

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

#because #clean #eat #focused #food

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

Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support. ↗

— Jim McCrery

#care #congress #costs #every #goals