Elisabeth Tova Bailey famous quotes

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.
-- Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#Spirit #Forgotten #Illness

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.
-- Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#Illness #Silent #Good Health

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

#Memories #Leaving #Purpose

We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.
-- Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#Numbers #Giving #Use

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

QUOTES BOUQUET: The Brightest Future Will Always Be Based On A Forgotten Past...

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.