A Quote by August Wilson

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

August Wilson

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August Wilson
American - Playwright
April 27, 1945 - October 2, 2005

If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it.

Tarana Burke

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

Menander

The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.

Nhat Hanh

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Sarah Fielding

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

Diana Butler Bass

Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.

Kim Fields

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

Michele Bachmann

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

Desmond Tutu

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

Richard Armour

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Ricky Skaggs

Love is the catalyst that causes change. Love is the balm that brings healing to the soul.

Thomas S. Monson

I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.

Moses ibn Ezra

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Gale Sayers

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.