Survival often depends on a specific focus: A relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility. Or something more ephemeral: the way the sun passes through the hard seemingly impenetrable glass of a window and warms the blanket, or how the wind, invisible but for its wake, is so loud one can hear it through the insulated walls of a house.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyIllness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyThe life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as that of anyone I know
Elisabeth Tova BaileyIn terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size
Elisabeth Tova BaileyTags: memoirs natural-history non-fiction
I liked the sound of the word 'snail' every time I said it; the word was as small and simple as the creature itself.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyI find that nothing is quite as I remember; in my absence, the world has changed.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyGiven the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyTags: wisdom life inspirational weakness meaning illness disease wasting-time life-changing spiritual-development overcoming-adversity
It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyTags: dentist tooth snails dentistry
We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyThe sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyTags: nature nature-quotes
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