#hospital

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#hospitality #immense #iraqi #iraqi people #life

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#caribbean #construction #found #growing #hospital

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold without original sin, without expulsions and floods and disobedience and illness. When I am a good guest, I have returned to Eden, where everything I need is provided for me, including companionship and a benevolent deity at my shoulder serving me and protecting me. The concept of paradise may be backward-looking but the concept of heaven is anticipatory. Perhaps this is what heaven will be like? A great table of oak worn smooth with age and candle wax; a dimly lit room, a quartet of angels playing Sarah Vaughan in the corner; this blissful throb of quiet, intelligent conversation; bubbling pots and aromatic stews that no one seems to have worked to prepare; and you - you have nothing to worry about, not now, not here, not for all eternity. Leave it all behind at the threshold, forget everything, for here in heaven, you are my guest. ↗

— Jesse Browner

#hospitality #paradise #age

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#classic #dark #emotional #life #mental-hospital

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive. ↗

— Pat Barker

#mental-illness #ptsd #trauma #war #mental-illness

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. ↗

— Travis Barker

#day #eat #ever #every #every day

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#babies #beans #going #him #hospital

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#author #authorities #been #behind #copies

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital. ↗

— Halle Berry

#anyway #diabetic #diet #end #had