Butterwick Hospice Quotes & Sayings

Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance. — Agus Ekanurdi

I'm not out there suggesting that we should ban every plastic product. But there are some whose environmental costs exceed their utility, and the [plastic] bag is one of them. — Susan Freinkel

If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough. — John Irving

The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody. — Max Horkheimer

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies. — Publilius Syrus

There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body — Gautama Buddha

Wild Fremen said it well: Four things cannot be hidden
love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled. — Frank Herbert

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time. — Amanda Palmer

I-I don't think you're stupid. "That might be the nicest thing you ever said to me. — Victoria Aveyard

Rainer Maria Rilke sacrificed everything
For his art he dedicated himself
To the Great Work

I admired his single-mindedness
All through my twenties
I argued his case

Now I think he was a jerk
For skipping his daughter's wedding
For fear of losing his focus

He believed in the ancient enmity
Between daily life and the highest work
Or Ruth and the Duino Elegies

It is probably a middle-class prejudice
Of mine to think that Anna Akhmatova
Should have raised her son Lev

Instead of dumping him on her husband's mom
Motherhood is a bright torture she confessed
I was not worthy of it

Lev never considered it sufficient
For her to stand outside his prison
Month after month clutching packages

And composing Requiem for the masses — Edward Hirsch

Wait. are they really going to - "
"Head butt each other until one passes out or dies of blood on the brain? Yep. They really are."
"And they protect our queen and lands. How reassuring. — G.A. Aiken

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality. — Laurell K. Hamilton

People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances. — Ruth Ahmed