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1 " True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them. "
― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Infinity Sign
2 " Get Off The Scale!You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable. Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.Get off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile. Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life.It’s true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love. Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful! "
― Steve Maraboli , Life, the Truth, and Being Free
3 " Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist. "
― C. JoyBell C.
4 " There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. "
― Charles Dickens , A Christmas Carol
5 " There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children "
6 " One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future. "
― Shane Claiborne , Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
7 " Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana , The Use and Misuse of Children
8 " By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic magic if one is not to be overwhelmed. ... What is essential is to become one with the sickness, that is, in the context of language as a whole, to enter into contact with words. "
― , The Myth of the World: Surrealism 2
9 " Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease. "
― Pierre Abélard , The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
10 " The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. "
― Criss Jami , Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
11 " Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its scent, sometimes sensual, sometimes mystical or animal, can exude the musty and arcane smell of destiny. (" One could still feel the smell of fear" ) "
12 " We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU! "
13 " What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction? "
― Tyler Knight , Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life
14 " It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. "
― Alice Hoffman , Local Girls
15 " Smiles are very contagious so infect everyone with your smiles. "
― Debasish Mridha
16 " There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there. "
― David Abram , Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
17 " On a winter’s day when a person’s spirits may be low and to behold thirty to one-hundred Evening Grosbeaks busily gorging themselves on bird seed and perched in a stand of pines with all of them creating a cacophony of sparrow like chirps, this is real therapy for me. It is an act of contagious optimism. It is at such times I realize that a bird can do more for me than a shrink. "
― , Teachers in the Forest: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
18 " Always – but especially when suffering - surround yourself with those who inspire you to lose yourself more honestly, to love others more thoroughly, to live life more fully, and to trust God more wholly. Huddle with those who care for you and those who are exemplary in their encouragement, patience and understanding of others. Hang out with those who strive to put God and faith at their center. Pray for peers, friends and mentors who will not only encourage you to be your best independent, strong, and vulnerable self all at the same time – but also sincerely humble. Pray that their angel dust will transcend you when even the smallest flecks of their contagious warmth and permeating beauty fall upon you. Then ever pray that you may have the opportunity to likewise ease and nurture others in such authentic ways; thus honing such a charitable, other-oriented nature of your own, – a miraculous healing balm – a buffer of pain if there ever was one. Know this is the most powerful antidote for fear and sorrow; the most effective – and addictive – cure-all known in all of creation; an elixir for that otherwise, elusive kind of happiness – the kind that weathers, endures and remains in all seasons and conditions. "
― Connie Kerbs , Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love (Pebbled Lane Books Book 1)
19 " Divorce is just as contagious as Marriage. "
20 " It's amazing how much power a smile holds. It's contagious and brightens people's day. It's also the most powerful camouflage. For that person who seems to have it all together is merely masking the pain of drowning tears. Don't be so quick to assume. "
― Brittany Burgunder , Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders
