3 Quotes & Sayings By Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Elisabeth Tova Bailey is an author and freelance writer. She has worked as an editor in the publishing industry for over thirty years, and her work can be found in numerous magazines, journals, and newsletters. Her articles have also appeared in "Romantic Times," "American Poetry Review," "Mysticism" (the journal of the Society of American Buddhists), "The Journal of Yoga Studies," "The Breckenridge-Wicki Journal," "The Hermitage Review," "The Parapsychological Association Journal," "Free Spirit Magazine," and other publications. She is also the author of the novel, The Spirit Queen (Heinle & Heinle Publishers).

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Given 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 Bailey
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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 Bailey