A Quote by Vera Nazarian

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
American - Writer
Born: May 25, 1966

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Louise Gluck

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.

Vera Nazarian

I feel happy with myself when I go to the steam room and steam my face. But truth be told, my ultimate beauty indulgence is lip balm - I can't go an hour without lip balm.

Goapele

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

P. L. Travers

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.

Zoe Foster Blake

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Felicia Hemans

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Edwin Way Teale

How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

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

To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.

John Keats

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

Thomas S. Monson

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

John Vianney

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

Leigh Hunt

What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.

Vera Nazarian

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

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