Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
Interpretation
Embrace challenges that allow you to express your true self and creativity.
In this quote, Bonnie Hunt reflects on her experiences in nursing, emphasizing the importance of facing challenges that align with one's values and authenticity. She suggests that being in tune with one's creative integrity, heart, and sense of self is crucial, especially in difficult or vulnerable situations, as it enriches both personal growth and the connections made with others.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth, this quote can inspire others to embrace their challenges.
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
May you live all the days of your life.
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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