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The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around…. Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. – Larry Dossey

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. – Martin H. Fischer

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. – James H. West

Confidence and hope do more good than physic. – Galen

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! – Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. – Marcel Proust

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. – Frederick W. Cropp

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. – Katherine Paterson

He who fears something gives it power over him. – Moorish Proverb

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Dan Rather

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. – Dorothy Bernard

Optimism is the foundation of courage. – Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. – Arthur Koestler

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. – Emily Kimbrough

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! – Author Unknown

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. – Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche