"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
-George MacDonald
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.“
-George MacDonald
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"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
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"The principle part of faith is patience."
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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
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