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I died last night. Seventy years too young. ↗

— Colin Thompson

#early-death #famine #global #ignorance #niger

.....listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of everyday reality. In order to understand them we have to make adjustments to comprehend a poetic form of expression that is sometimes elusive but actually far more expressive than the world of facts. ↗

— Robert L. Wise

#death #dying #heaven #hell #hospice

War was so many things, and not the least of which confusion. What was wrong? What was right, for that matter? Was killing right or wrong? Brave or cowardly? Human nature or unnatural behavior of creatures too smart for their own good? Loyalty, betrayal, hate, love, fear, friendship, teamwork, violence. War was connected to all of these. Hard work, sadness, suffering, discipline, chaos, questions, few answers, strategy, bravery, foolishness, death, life. And both winning and losing were only two small aspects of the word war. ↗

— Kenzie Kovacs-Szabo

#dragon-claws #inspirational #life #twelfth-strike-trilogy #war

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword." She raised an eyebrow. "Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #humor

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#faith #joy #faith

We tend to get a little information before we off people. It’s not a play by ear sort of deal. ↗

— Holly Hood

#funny #life #death

. . . distant as the death of grocery chickens. ↗

— Rodney Jones

#death

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#death

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen. ↗

— Steve Farrar

#death #tragedy #death

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#conversation #delilah-mcphee #humor #jules #paying-attention