#hanging

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#myth #novels #reading-books #art

I'll not be changing, but America will. ↗

— Russell Brand

#changing #i #will

I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time. ↗

— Ray Brown

#changing #constantly #couple #else #go

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop. ↗

— Luther Campbell

#announce #anyone #changing #get #haven

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. ↗

— John Dewey

#changing #comes #each #endeavor #experience

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is. ↗

— Marc Morial

#behavior #changing #gun #industry #money

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time. ↗

— Greer Garson

#changing #could #i #i do #impossible

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#being #changing #develop #done #everything

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. ↗

— Maynard Jackson

#best #changing #how #live #means