#dying

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. ↗

— Renae Jones

#cancer #circumstances #death #dying #faith

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly! ↗

— Roman Payne

#death #dying #life #loss #love

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#around #ask #because #children #constitution

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #dying #itself #life #living

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #dying #end #epic #out

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets. ↗

— George Best

#bottom #dying #gets #hit #i

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#bothered #cancer #clean #clean up #dying

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#going #heavyweight #i #into #like

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#artists #compliment #dying #ego #hug

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#clinic #different #different levels #i #levels