"Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations."

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Judith Orloff

#Opportunity Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Illness Quotes

“What happened?â€ she breathed, staring at me. â€œI got hit in the face with a pie,â€ I said. Mags stopped, blinking. â€œYou got...hit in the face with a pie,â€ she repeated. â€œI...what? Iâ€™m sorry, but Iâ€™ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. Iâ€™ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.â€ â€œIt was a really evil pie,â€ I said.”
“If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.”
“It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible.”
“If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”
“Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.”
“There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.”
“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!”
“I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.”

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