A rubberband bouncing back to life A rubberband bend the beat If I could learn to give like a rubberband I'd be back on my feet...
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- This quote uses a rubber band as a metaphor for resilience, suggesting that giving to others can help one recover from personal struggles.
- In plain terms
- Giving to others can help you bounce back.
- What can you take from it?
- Altruism can be a source of personal healing.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does giving make you feel?
- What helps you recover?
Another view
It oversimplifies recovery by ignoring those who need help themselves.
More from Kate Bush
See those trees Bend in the wind I feel they've got a lot more sense than me You see I try to resist...
Permalink to quote #196 We let it in We give it out And in the end What's it all about? It must be love.
Permalink to quote #198 He thought he was gonna die, But he didn't. She thought she just couldn't cope, But she did. We thought it would be so hard, But it wasn't... It wasn't easy, t…
Permalink to quote #195
Related quotes
'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,' As it hurried down the hill. 'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener sti…
Fanny CrosbyFanny Crosby quote #1 'From what we get, we can make a living: what we give, however makes a life.'
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe quote #2 If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Robert SouthRobert South quote #4