The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the world’s greatest doctor; it can heal almost anything. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal. - Vironika Tugaleva
It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end. - Bryonie Wise
Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up. - Vironika Tugaleva
One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken - Tommy Cotton
Positive vibrations and a genuine smile on your lips can heal the most distraught soul. - Sanchita Pandey
Physician, heal thyself. - Bible
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open. - Emmet Fox
Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.--From Pull: A Seaside Novel - Rachel Van Dyken
And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal. - Anonymous
In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself - Goitsemang Mvula
Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life. - Avis J. Williams
You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power. - Louise L. Hay
Forgive and set your self free. When we forgive, we heal our own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for our heart. - Angie karan
There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal. - Yovanoff, Brenna
Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal. It’s a matter of how you pick them. - George Carlin
What does it mean to be healthy? Heal Thy. - J.R. Rim
New places and new things will not heal us, until we do the deep work needed, the same patterns will continue to repeat. - Eileen Anglin
A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last for ever - Bangambiki Habyarimana
Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented. - conversations with a pigeon
…if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, while a wonderful thing, has its limits. That there are answers to be found in the unconventional. - Daisy Whitney
Your mind can make you sick, and your mind can heal you. - Stan Beecham
It is my intention to spread love on this planet so that all hearts may heal and we may experience the abundance of what we were born to receive... unconditional love. - Monika Zands
الوقت لا يلئم الجراح، بل الحبtime does not heal wounds, love does - Wafaa Nowaihed
As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That’s why most of my patients get better even before they start any medication. - Debasish Mridha
Always you, since the moment I first lay my hands on you to heal that bullet wound. SinceI fell inside your soul. Don’t you know that by now, Quinn? - Alyssa Day
Families that feel together, heal together. - Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D.
The truth hurts, only when it can heal. - Rob Liano
Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past. - Andrew Solomon
Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others. - Shannon L. Alder
I CAN'T GO ON! I FEEL LIKE NONE OF MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS CAN HEAL! AS SOON AS IT TRIES TO HEAL, IT SHATTERS AGAIN! I CAN'T HEAL! - Shine
You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope. - Shannon L. Alder
Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. - Aneta Cruz
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. - Rosa Parks
You are loved, and you are worthy! Remember your wholeness. Within you is the spark of the Divine. Let go of negative self-talk and let LOVE heal you. - Angie karan
Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality. - Anne Stirling Hastings
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. - Jim Henson
Kindness is the greatest medicine that can heal all ills. - Debasish Mridha
With my love I will touch you.With my love I will heal you.With my love I will surround you.With my love I will melt you. - Debasish Mridha
When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart. I cry, and then I extend my hand to help heal my heart. - Debasish Mridha
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jessamyn West
We must heal this terminally ill world with love. - Sunday Adelaja
One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting caring and love is also expecting our earth from us. Do it, It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind. - Karthikeyan V
Time may heal all wounds, but confidence once shattered may never be fully restored. - Musawir Masood
Wisdom is stronger than steel. It can break and it can heal. - Debasish Mridha
Only if I heal, can you heal. Only if you heal, can I heal. Otherwise, we would continue to scar each other. - Srividya Srinivasan
Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them. - Shannon L. Alder
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. - John Muir
A little madness shows the way to happiness.A little kindness can heal the sadness. - Debasish Mridha
Singing from your heart is like fresh air that heal you again from the pollution around you - Ahmed Farrag
Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me. - Kiera Cass
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by - J.R.R. Tolkien
They say a witch-doctor can't heal himself but I beg to differ. I have been in deep end but somehow Managed to keep my head high....all by myself. Self belief, self efficacy.....and leaning to God each time you sense imbalances - you will definitely make it. - Kwanele Booi
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done. - Donna Lynn Hope
We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us. - John Eldredge
To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish. - Nikki Rowe
But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair. - Oscar Wilde
Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched... - Gabrielle Zevin
And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you keep them"And by wisdom attained it was realized that this was not the way. And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you heal them in truth without repercussion or judgement; in understanding, compassion and forgiveness. - L.J Vanier
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare
Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them. - Joyce Rachelle
You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love. - Shannon L. Alder
May the Lord heal every sick soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and magic - give it some space. We often complicate things by wondering how to fix it. At times, just some space and unsaid love can heal even those wounds that are deeply engraved. - Nikita Dudani
Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal. - Kemi Sogunle
Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe. - Paula Heller Garland
What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing. - Ann Marie Aguilar
A bird cannot fly with broken wings. Your heart cannot love without learning to heal. - Kemi Sogunle
A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for their own actions and make the shift necessary for growth. - Sanjo Jendayi
Words can heal. - Debasish Mridha
I felt a hole boring through my heart. It was carving a scar that would never heal. I was a man. A man doesn't cry at lost love. Never. Instead, he turns hard. From now on, I would live up to my name"...Rattler. - Barry Andrew Chambers
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. - Roy Bennett
Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person. - Han Kang, Human Acts
I know it's possible to overcome even very big problems in life, to heal yourself and move on - Jodi Ann Bickley
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Scars heal when you learn to FLY.F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself). - Shilpa Menon
Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield. - Shannon L. Alder
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. - Deepak Chopra
Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years - Rei Anthony Albon
Acknowledge your inner child. Even though we have found the light in ourselves today, we sometimes forget to heal old wounds of our past. Your inner child still needs to be loved in order to heal the complete self. - Karen A. Baquiran
I rip out my wings I so I can't be free, I rip up my wounds so it doesn't heal, if I rip out my heart does this mean I can't feel - Joyce Guo
The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story. - Tamyara Brown
Vampires don't tan. Without UV protection, we get sunburned, heal, and just repeat the process over and over. — Spade, First Drop of Crimson by - Jeaniene Frost
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. - Jeanette Winterson
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. - William Hale White
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - John Milton
We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment. - Dana Arcuri
It was that Moment when your fingers touched my skin for the first time I realised, how the fire can heal scars. - Akshay Vasu
The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow. - Vironika Tugaleva
One word can lift a mind.One smile can soothe a heart.One touch can heal a soul.One act can change the world. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. - Scottish Proverb
Time can heal and time can help forgive and forget because in time the memories fade. The time will go so slow so fast and love will stay if it's right. - Kate McGahan
Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. - Maya Angelou
What’s it like being a writer? Mostly it’s like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I’m over here saying Let’s pretend. - Jennifer Froelich
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare
Money is energy and in the right hands can help heal the world. - Nikki Rowe
When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us. - Leslie G Nelson
Your love is the best tincture; it can heal my soul. - Debasish Mridha
Forgive your self and others by removing the anger that stands in your way and replace it with love, to heal your soul and your spirit. - Angie karan
When we think, we hurt. When we feel, we heal. - A.D. Posey
There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again. - Nikki Rowe
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. - Jalaluddin Rumi
we are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizessome are just scribblesand yet, we all possessa special kind of beautythat can either heal or cut to the boneone that can never quitebe fathomed, nor forgotten. - Sanober Khan
In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until a new one comes along - Billy Joel
The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal. - Sally Odgers
What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest. - James Riordan
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. - Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Love can cause problem and love can heal humanly problems based on our virtue. - Santosh Kalwar
Unexpected clashes between past and present may arouse a surge of bewilderment, but ‘time’ can be a redeemer and heal mental wreckage. Time might prove to be a dependable ally and a reliable coach to find a new inspiring sequel for the future. (Disruption) - Erik Pevernagie
If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate - Muriel Barbery
I hate everyone because everyone's same as others; and everyone hates me because I'm unique. They hate me because I have a heart; which gets hurt every time but at the end of the day it gets heal in a hope that next day wont be same as this one. So don't worry guys you can still use me.. :) - Taimoor Madni
so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal. - George K. Simon
To heal, love.To understand, feel.To let go, forgive.To care, be kind. - Debasish Mridha
Some losses never heal you just learn to carry the burden and shed a tear every now and then - Tina Gayle
A listening heart can take away stress. A loving and friendly hug can heal and bless. - Debasish Mridha
There's only one thing that can heal the heart... Only one... It's love, Gaara. - Masashi Kishimoto
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. - Rita Schiano
Our bodies heal without permission but our hearts need consent. Give it. - Lauren Eden
Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal. The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack. - Teresa Tsalaky
The power to heal the scars begins with hope. - Shilpa Menon
And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Be wiser than most, be a child in your heart, be a sage in your mind and a mage with your hands. Feel hearts beating, hear the flapping of birds' wings. Heal the broken, embrace the vulnerable. Speak to the living trees. Be pulled down by no one, and by nothing. This is how to be a Goddess. - C. JoyBell C.
Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal? - Nikki Rowe
Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting. - Joel Osteen
I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
That which wounds, shall heal. - Apollo
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain. - Anthony Liccione
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt. - Alan Cohen
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best - Tobias Wolff
Let go of your pain and heal your wounds. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It's harder to heal than it is to kill. - Tamora Pierce
Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also allow yourself the permission to let it heal. - Nikki Rowe
Sometimes people come to heal your pain and end up by giving you bit more of that - Paul karan
Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal - American Pregnancy Association
When you awaken and are self aware, you heal. When you heal, you heal the world - Eileen Anglin
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment. - Michael Jackson
I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be. - Taylor Swift
The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
You're not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you. - Pauline Seaport
Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda. - Mike McHargue
Do you know what pains me the mostabout you? Do you?Having all of thatbottled up insideof your soulall of those dark secretsthat you will notlet escape your heart.Love is the only thing that will heal you. Let me LOVE you. Please. - Zuky rose Leigh
To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes courage. - Victoria Wen
Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal. - Forrest Curran
No demigod can heal your heart."Aphrodite to Reyna, at Charleston - Rick Riordan
Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe - Madelon Phillips
There is an incredible beauty in your touch, it can heal the gravest wounds. And in your smile, that can easily mend any broken heart. - Luan
Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you can't truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you've hurt yourself? I'm still figuring out who I am, but I know that I'm not who I was. - brendon urie
The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself - Han Kang, The Vegetarian
Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to. - Shilpa Menon
It will be foolish not to get your heart broken, even once.For having a broken heart makes you realize the immense capability it possesses to mend and heal itself and to love far more intensely,with every affixed piece of it that was once broken and torn apart.. - Sanhita Baruah
As a physician, we heal by sharing our bestowed power of knowledge, love, and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts - Rasheed Ogunlaru
A simple touch of kindness can heal a wound of the soul which no medicine can touch. - Debasish Mridha
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it. - Shakti Gawain
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir
Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it takes years to heal - Rei Anthony Albon
Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us. - Jaeda DeWalt
Love is as abundant and powerful as sunlight. It can enlighten the whole world. Clouds of doubt can hide it temporarily, but it is always there. It can heal you as sunlight, but it can also burn you. - Debasish Mridha
Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made. - Neil T. Anderson
He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that. - Matt Chandler
Be just the balm you need to heal what ails you - Heather Davis
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family. - Mother Teresa
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. - Maya Angelou
Music can touch and heal that secret wound of the soul which nothing else can reach. - Debasish Mridha
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way. - Francis of Assisi
Love is one of the most powerful healing tools in the universe. Most people forget to use it to build rapport, to deepen their relatedness, and to mend the upset that underlies disagreement and expectation. Sprinkle more love and you will heal only 100% of the time. - Monika Zands
Following a spiritual path doesn't mean we won't feel emotional pain. But faith gives us the grace and the courage to get through it and the knowing that we will heal and be a better person for it. - Eileen Anglin
Kind words can heal and harsh words can kill - Beta Metani' Marashi
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
Where there is a blanket of hate, uplift it with the strong arms of love. If there is pain, heal it with your kind words and gentle touch. In the face of anger, stay so calm and unfazed that anger leaves the room. - Pooja Ruprell
A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos. - Yehuda Amichai
With a strong spirit , you heal every bruise. - Lailah Gifty Akita
But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed. - Subcomandante Marcos
What you feel, you can heal. - John Gray
The power to heal is all in the hug. - Lynda Cheldelin Fell
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. - Jeanette Winterson
Kindness can heal a wound that medicine can't touch. - Debasish Mridha
Pain is knowledge, knowledge is to heal the future. - Sixeye
Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve! - Shannon L. Alder
God is alive, real, and wants to heal you in every aspect of your life where you are hurting. - Robert A. Schuller
A heart that reaches out with love can heal a soul and change a life - Kiran Shaikh
Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch. - Debasish Mridha
I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Let us try to heal the mind first before we heal the body. - Debasish Mridha
If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal. - Antonia Perdu
Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching? - Monika Zands
Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle? - Joe Bageant