“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsChildrenMotherDyingBabyCurrentsAccessVulnerableBreastsBellyLimbsHollowHornsFamineSwollenMatchsticksHorn Of Africa Author:Josette Sheeran
“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.” KnowsMayPainJoyMotherJesusChristLove IsDyingBearsJesus ChristBlessedEndlessBores Book:Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich Source: Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.” ThinkingLooksSoulLastsMotherDesireDiesCultureWishLosesCommonEffortHalfDarknessSuccessfulFireChildhoodDyingCreationProduceColdCivilizationGravesDawnGrayRomeWearyWombReluctantRomanticismDaylightClassicism Book:The decline of the West Source: The decline of the West
“When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.” YearsHardMotherStruggleDyingToughCancerAlbums Author:Lil' Mama
“If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.” IfsFeelsEarthMotherDiesDyingWaveDisappearMother Earth Author:Nhat Hanh