Art Quote by Isaac Asimov

“Be guided only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the…

— Charles Dickens

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

“I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The…

— Abraham Verghese

“Our wound is serious, but the Physician is all-powerful. Does it seem to you so small a mercy that, while you were living in…

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

“Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources…

— Aldous Huxley

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“His presence is the medicine that soothes my wounds.”

— J.L. Mac

“do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.”

— Desmond Tutu

“By simply shifting my focus to another person, which is what compassion does, my own pain was much less intense. This is how compassion…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Now, we shall be able to judge the extent of the spiritual undernourishment if we look at all these movements from another angle: not…

— Paul Tournier

A healer of others, himself diseased.

— Plutarch

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from…

— Alfred Adler