Philosophy Quote by Beth Linker Download Open image ““Why? Because the ethic of rehabilitation, established almost a century ago, lives on.”” — Beth Linker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The measure of a society, he said, is how well it transforms pain and suffering into something worthwhile.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“When I was very ill, I watched people out running and loved their capacity for movement, their freedom within their bodies. My hope was… — Arthur W. Frank Copy Share Image
“Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.” — Kitt Weagant Copy Share Image
“A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.” — Peprah Boasiako Copy Share Image
“Being able to appreciate who we are and what we have in the now is an easy way to journey through this life.” — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
“Because that was the whole point of every person’s journey. To be alive. To live and to keep moving forward.” — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
“The 'what' of life is immediate, but the 'why' trails along at its own pace.” — Garry Lee Wright Copy Share Image
“Your life's work determines your legacy and the impact that you have on the world.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the concept of… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
“Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.” — M.R. Weston Copy Share Image
“...among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very… — Maria Gentile Copy Share Image
“Rhetoric coming from outside medicine among lay rehabilitation advocates suggested that nursing could do more harm than good in the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers.… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“After witnessing conditions of overcrowding and poor ventilation in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital in 1861, the US Civil War Sanitary Commission recommended that… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“Given the fact that the goal of rehabilitation was to find disabled men gainful employment, it is noteworthy that the United States did not… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“The disabled man heralded in rehabilitation propaganda literature was the “supercrip,” a man who, against all odds, surmounted his physical deficits and achieved spectacular… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that Lt. C. spent months in the Balkan bed, with one end of a pulley attached to his stump and the… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“Among Walter Reed amputees, physiotherapists had a reputation for being “all chesty,” often challenging (and beating) the nurses at a game of basketball.70” — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“One might think that as a country almost always involved in a military operation of one kind or another, the United States would be… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“arrangement. First the soldier was to engage in “bedside occupation”—a phase necessary to “buck up” the soldiers—which would be followed by training in the… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“After spending a couple months at Walter Reed, Kristi told a Washington Post reporter that, if someone had to get injured, she was glad… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“Putting Rubbers to the Test No one knew what to expect from the women who graduated from the physiotherapy war emergency courses once they… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“Each individual 150-by-30-foot ward had hardwood floors and walls with rounded corners, “making them easier to clean” and to keep germ free. Ventilation—another crucial… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“Another way in which physiotherapists made rubbing respectable was to mandate that the therapeutic encounter involve an element of pain.” — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“It takes tremendous courage, persistence, and perseverance to pursue your ultimate purpose.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“This is what is called "honor among thieves," for the really dangerous people are those who do not recognize that they are thieves— the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image