Hospice Social Worker Quotes & Sayings

Prophets have a way of dying by violence. — Frank Herbert

It is a world of words to the end of it, / In which nothing solid is its solid self. — Wallace Stevens

I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back. — Lykke Li

A photograph is a kind of time machine. — Nicola Yoon

Do I feel I should be punished? Yes. Why else would I have given myself bangs? — Jennifer Niven

We laughed together. It's so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed ... — James Lusarde

I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.
I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.
I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.
I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds. — Catherine Scott

A Chinese saying describes it well: "As far away as the horizon, and right in front of your face." You can run toward it forever, run faster and faster, and never get any closer. Only when you stop do you realize you are already there. That is exactly our collective situation right now. All of the solutions to the global crisis are sitting right in front of us, but they are invisible to our collective seeing, existing, as it were, in a different universe. When we are trapped in a story, we can only do the things that that story can recognize. Often we are aware of being trapped (the old story is ending) but don't have access to any alternative (we haven't yet inhabited a new story). — Charles Eisenstein