Literature Review

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or scultor's work. - Florence NightingaleEditor's Note: Hospice & Palliative Care Today joins you in celebrating nurses, National Nurses Week May 6-12, 2024!

I wanted to run. I wanted to fly. I was cryin’. I wanted to tell the whole world who he was and what we had done with him, you know, and he was our horse. Other than when my four children and my grandchild was born, I’ve never been happier. You want to see the greatest, and the greatest of all races is the Kentucky Derby. That is the race, the Kentucky Derby, the Run for the Roses. - John Sosby, former manager of Claiborne Farm Editor's Note: Posted from Louisville, KY! (Home of Joy Berger, Editor-in-Chief)  

You never know when something you do or somebody you talk to changes the course of your life. - Judi Lund PersonEditor's Note: This quote is from today's post, "Judi Lund Person: Unleashed," from a pivotal, spontaneous life moment that called her to a brand new movement called "hospice."

Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer - Author Unknown

People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it. They claim that the light that shines in the darkness can be trusted more than the darkness itself and that a little bit of light can dispel a lot of darkness. They point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real presence of God. ~Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined. - Bono

Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day. - Alice Morse Earle

Chag Pesach Kasher Vesame’ach (pronounced: CHAG PEH-sach kah-SHER ve-sah-MAY-ach) - Have a joyful and kosher Passover - Begins at sundown Monday April 22, 2024 and ends at sundown Tuesday April 30, 2024

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~Aristotle

Thursday mornings are like a Rubik’s Cube. You’re not sure how it got this complicated, but you’re determined to solve it. - Anonymous

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience – and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility. – Jacob K. Javits 

The greatest teacher is not the one who imparts knowledge, but the one who inspires curiosity. ~Timotheus of Miletus

Friday. The golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend. — Anonymous