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The Books We Read to Reconnect with Ourselves
There are occasions when a book is our best companion. It can provide the opportunity to get lost in another person’s story or to fine-tune our own...Posted in books for the hospital, books to connect with yourself, books to read during chemo, boosting energy, healing, hospital gift, reconnect with yourself, recovering from surgery, self-care, sleep at night, well-being
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I long, as does every human
being, to be at home
wherever I find myself.
—Maya Angelou
A mind that is stretched by a
new experience can never go back
to its old dimensions.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fashion changes,
but style endures.
―Coco Chanel
People who are good to each other
make each other good.
—Jo Coudert
...the most important thing
we ever give each other
is our attention.
—Rachel Naomi Remen
Life shrinks or
expands in proportion
to one’s courage.
—Anaïs Nin
I sleep with my feet on moss
carpets, my branches in
the cotton of the clouds.
—Anaïs Nin
In search of my mother's
garden, I found my own.
—Alice Walker
…and like a leaf of lavender
in a store of linen, so does
memory make life sweet.
—Myrtle Reed
Being deeply loved by
someone gives you
strength, while loving
someone deeply gives
you courage.
—Lao Tzu
A stumbling block to the
pessimist is a stepping-
stone to the optimist.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
The Way is not in the sky;
the Way is in the heart.
—Gautama Buddha
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
—Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Tell me what is it you
plan to do with your one
wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest.
—Benjamin Franklin
Always remember that you
are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
—Margaret Mead
Fashion is neither moral or immoral,
but it is for rebuilding the morale.
—Karl Lagerfeld
The environment is where we all meet;
where all have a mutual interest;
it is the one thing all of us share.
—Lady Bird Johnson
Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
I am still in progress,
and I hope that
I always will be.
—Michelle Obama
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
—Paul Simon
Elegance is the only
beauty that never fades.
—Audrey Hepburn
…the place which may
seem like the end may
also be the beginning.
—Ivy Baker Priest
I aspire to grow my imagination
and to strengthen my optimism.
—Dani McClain
Connection is why we're here.
—Brené Brown
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called the present.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
—Louisa May Alcott
In search of my mother's
garden, I found my own.
—Alice Walker
For there is always light, if only
we’re brave enough to see it. If only
we’re brave enough to be it.
—Amanda Gorman
Nobody has ever measured,
not even poets, how much
the heart can hold.
—Zelda Fitzgerald
If you get tired, learn to rest,
not to quit.
—Banksy
Gratitude is a celebration
we are all invited to.
—Cleo Wade
A mind that is stretched by a
new experience can never go back
to its old dimensions.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
The cure for anything
is salt water: sweat,
tears, or the sea.
—Isak Dinesen