Abcd Pediatrics Quotes & Sayings

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. — Carl Jung

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. — Melvin Maddocks

I'd never realized how changeless this changeable island was until it turned into something different than I'd ever known. — Maggie Stiefvater

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. — Mordecai Richler

Excerpt from "The Long Road from Perdition" for the day:
" ... I've always been drawn to the ocean. It is here that I now feel peaceful and can lose my thoughts while immersed in the deafening sounds of waves crashing around me. The spray and mist of the ocean's past seem to be a living, breathing yet wounded animal. The fury of the waves never settled and the spew of the foam touched all that dared to sit near it.
There is no reason to flinch as the waves spray and crash against the shore. It is a natural progression I have learned to endure. However, it is the rescinding of the waves and fluid release of fury that I struggle to understand and coexist with peacefully. I hope one day to master it. — J.R. Stone

There are no emergency autopsies," another resident pointed out to me. "Your patients never complain. They don't page you during dinner. And they'll still be dead tomorrow. — Judy Melinek

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long. — Kevin McCloud

As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest. — Chris Kilham

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done — Fred Rogers

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist. — Malcolm X

It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christendom. — H.G.Wells