Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  

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• When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.

  

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• I just want to have fun.

  

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• The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

  

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• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

  

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• If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

  

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• The world grows less familiar with every day, and one needs to have a steady constant flame of familiarity one can return to when the dragon airships are gone and the reverse corsets are packed away in oak chests. Any adventure must give away to familiarity of routine, and I look to what lies ahead of me, clear eyed and level headed, knowing that both changes and constancy have their place in the world, and that I can survive either.

  

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• While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Survive
  • Illness
  • Mortality