Quotes about Hospice

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I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. – From 14 Days: A Mother, A — Lisa Goich
.....listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order tha — Robert L. Wise, Crossing the Threshold of Eternity: What the Dying Can Teach the Living
I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sen — Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with My Master
Of course, it’s now obvious why he was so angry that day. People don’t move into hospice to live but to die. And that ha — Alysia Abbott, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
My encounter with desperation while witnessing the death of a precious child changed me, teaching me that although we wi — Brent Green, Questions of the Spirit: The Quest for Understanding at a Time of Loss
I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a dark, intimate — Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for hi — Brent Green, Questions of the Spirit: The Quest for Understanding at a Time of Loss
Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side — Brent Green, Questions of the Spirit: The Quest for Understanding at a Time of Loss
Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of hum — Brent Green, Questions of the Spirit: The Quest for Understanding at a Time of Loss
One of my pa...friends... isn't doing very well.""...Is your friend dying?""...Yes honey, he is.""That's sad. — Justin Madson, Breathers
The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-f — Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Spending moments with another in earnest presence is one of the simple ways we can show unconditional love. It is the me — Molly Friedenfeld
Angels of highest light and love, Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above.Please join us and be — Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the en — Robert L. Wise, Crossing the Threshold of Eternity: What the Dying Can Teach the Living
What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had onl — Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight
When I reflect on the stories of death supported by hospice care and contrast it with our story depicting an absence of — Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to — Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is — Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
There is absolutely no way someone cannot be affected, or cannnot learn vital lessons by being forced to dwell in the ma — Milkweed L. Augustine
There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern. — Robert Martensen, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era