Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Benjamin Spock

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock, doctor and author

Carl Jung

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Paracelsus

"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth."

- Paracelsus, physician, botanist, alchemist, astronomer

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

John Lilly

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."

- John Lilly, physician, scientist, philosopher, writer

Anton Chekhov

"Man is what he believes."

- Anton Chekhov, physician, writer, playwright

George Bernard Shaw

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic