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.
Nobody knows how long they have left on Earth. There's no guarantees, and for me, when they tell you - not once, twice, three times - 'You've got a couple weeks to live,' or a couple months, you have to determine how you want to do that.
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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