These collected quotes have been edited together in a healing sequence to take the reader from loss, through transition, to healing. The sequence more eloquently conveys the underlying meaning in Transitional Medicine.

From Loss...

W. Macneile Dixon

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly:
What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

God will only mend a broken heart
when He is given all the pieces.

Anonymous

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne,
let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted
into which our grief has given us entrance, and inevitably,
we will feel about us,
their arms and their understanding

Helen Keller

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap,
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own
and depart.

Socrates

Albert Smith

Anne Frank

I will open my heart in trust that,
in ways I do not now understand,
my loved one will continue to be present in my life.

Martha Whitmore Hickman

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself
and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences.
All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away
but not that of having had one.

Seneca

There is in every heart a spark of heavenly fire
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity,
but which kindles up and beams
and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

The Divine Alchemist can miraculously change a sorrowing heart of lead
into a golden mellowness that sings praises through tears.

S.L. McMillen

The most minute transformation is like a pebble dropped into a still lake.
The ripples spread out endlessly.

Emmanuel

W.H. Auden

In the depth of winter,
I finally realized that deep within me there lay
an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

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There is a light in this world,
a healing spirit
more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
We sometime lose sight of this force
when there is suffering, and too much pain.
Then suddenly,
the spirit will emerge
through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call
and answer in extraordinary ways.

Mother Teresa

Marquis de Vauvenargues

Corrie ten Boom

Edwin Markham

Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS

Joy is a net of love by which your can catch souls...
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Mother Teresa

When we are mindful,
deeply in touch with the present moment,
Our understanding of what is going on deepens,
and we begin to be filled with
acceptance, joy, peace and love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Without love and kindness
life is cold, selfish and uninteresting
and leads to distaste for everything.
With kindness,
the difficult becomes easy,
the obscure clear;
life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened.
If we knew the power of kindness.
we should transform the world into a paradise.

Charles Wagner

Oscar Arias

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts,
Then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.

Hellen Keller

Love is the one ingredient of which our world never tires
and of which there is never an abundance.
It is needed in the marketplace and in the mansions.
It is needed in the ghettos and in the governments.
It is needed in homes, in hospitals, and in individual hearts.
The world will never outgrow its need for love.

C. Neil Strait

Love is Indestructible.
It's Holy Flame Forever burneth;
From Heaven it came, to Heaven Returneth.

Robert Southey

We cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Thomas Heywood

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