“Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.” YearsPainBecomingAnd LoveLipsComplainingAcheSealsRehearsingAches And Pains Book:Life is a Banquet Source: Life is a Banquet
“I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.” PersonsFeelingsActionPainWonderObjectsPrayingBecomingGratitudeFindingsConcernedFilledConstantSignificanceRitualBetter PersonCharitableBecoming A Better Person Author:Vanessa L Ochs
“The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies that have almost annihilated the farming population have greatly benefited the population of food consumers. But more and more consumers are now becoming aware that our supposed abundance of cheap and healthful food is to a considerable extent illusory.” PeopleHas BeensStatesPainPracticePolicyBecomingBenefitsEnvironmentalAffairPopulationConsumersAbundanceConvinceSustainabilityFarmingIllusoryConvince Us Author:Wendell Berry
“We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.” HumansSelfBodyPainNationsChallengesAbilityBecomingEssentialsIllnessPanicHuman BodyIntimidatedSissyHomeopathyHypochondriacSelf Medicating Author:Norman Cousins