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Quotes About Salve

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
~ Roy Barnes
Patience is sorrow's salve.
~ Winston Churchill
God who gives the wound gives the salve.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.
~ Leah Hager Cohen
Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.
~ Alexander Chee
I always have Chanel lip salve with me, a sheet mask for the plane, and extra moisturizer. I like to use iS Clinical Moisturizer, luxe eye mask, and drink water.
~ Ellie Bamber
Books as a salve to the boredom of TV? No, because the bookmark just began to separate one sea of unread words from another.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
~ Erik Larson
The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.
~ Bobby Bones
perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?
~ Emily Bernard
Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life.
~ Atul Gawande
Little trees alongside of the trail were covered with brushy yellow flowers. Witch hazel, that blooms in winter. Mrs. Peggot used to make a salve of that and put it on our scrapes.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
~ Rosa Parks
We've tried calling sin "errors" or mistakes" or "poor judgment," but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.
~ Billy Graham
There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.
~ Richard Armour
For those wounded by civilization, yoga is a healing salve.
~ Terri Guillemets, 2002
Patience is sorrow's salve.
~ Charles Churchill
Where gripping griefs the heart would wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress, There music with her silver sound With speed is wont to send redress: Of troubled minds, in every sore, Sweet music hath a salve in store.
~ Richard Edwards
Cognac is the perfume of wine, a salve to the senses.
~ Jan Moran
One death did not salve another.
~ Janet Fitch
Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.
~ Henri Cole
Laughter is a salve. It's the best medicine around. Poet Pablo Neruda called it "the language of the soul." I know this to be a universal truth because I've seen this play out in every culture around the world. People find respite and release in laughter.
~ Unknown
Prayer is .... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.
~ Unknown
The internet can be both a salve and an addiction, a way to block out pain (the salve) while simultaneously creating it (the addiction).
~ Lori Gottlieb