Nephrology Nurse Quotes & Sayings

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are. — Mark Epstein

In a world so full of trauma, why should causing offense be a goal in and of itself? When people are told they shouldn't be offended, their pain is invalidated, deemed less important than the dominant culture's supposed right to remain complacent. — Phoebe Rusch

If enlightened public opinion was a bulwark of freedom, then leaders must labor ceaselessly to enlighten or manipulate it. — Richard Brookhiser

The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul. — Fernando Pessoa

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on. — James Frey

If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship. — Adrian Rogers

I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other. — Yao Ming

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts. — Bob Goff

I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me — Dorothy B. Hughes

We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process. — Janet Reno

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all. — Tana French

Human history is a Gaian dream. — Terence McKenna

Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Ben Franklin — Benjamin Franklin

It's crucial to practice self-empathy, for trust can't be willed into existence. That didn't work when our caregivers tried to impose their will on us, and it won't work internally, either. Only when we can tap into a place of self-trust, with a reliable process of reparation for inevitable mistakes, can we build trust with another person. — Alexandra Katehakis