Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Wir können dem Leben nicht mehr Tage schenken aber dem Tag mehr Leben
English translation:
We can\'t add days to life, but we can add life to days.
German term
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Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: German to English
Wir können dem Leben nicht mehr Tage schenken aber dem Tag mehr Leben
Does anybody know the exact quotation by Cicely Saunders. This is in regard to a private nursing home.
Jan 27, 2011 18:38: Thomas Pfann changed "Field" from "Social Sciences" to "Other" , "Field (specific)" from "Medical: Health Care" to "Idioms / Maxims / Sayings" , "Field (write-in)" from "Nursing field" to "Quote"
Jan 27, 2011 19:11: Cilian O'Tuama changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (3): BrigitteHilgner, Steffen Walter, Cilian O'Tuama
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Proposed translations
We can't add days to life, but we can add life to days.
"Eden Valley Hospice is not about death and dying, it is about life
and the living, it is, as Dame Cicely Saunders said so well about
adding life to days even when we can’t add days to life."
http://www.evhospice.org.uk/WebNews/NewsletterSpring10 WEB.p...
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Native in: German (Variants: Germany, Swiss, Platt / Nieder (Low German), Austrian)
Works in: English to German, German to English, German
We have to concern ourselves with the quality of life as well as its length.
- Dame Cicely Saunders
http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Cicely_Saunders_06
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
: you obviously have the source! Bravo!
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but Cilian's version sounds better (as a motto)
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Robert de Wit
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Native in: English
Works in: German to English, English, German, and 6 more.
We can’t add days to our patient’s life, but we can add life to their days.
Although my reference does not say it's a quote.
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Johanna Timm, PhD
: sounds inviting :-)
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unless it's about electrotherapy
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RegineMac
: May not be the exact quote, but does sound good!
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Frosty
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Ramey Rieger (X)
: direct hit!
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Nicola Wood
: with Regine. Whetehr it is the exact quote or not, as a slogan this works best for me
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Lancashireman
: We can't add more chars (including spaces) to a source text, but we can ... erm... we can ... erm...
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Jenny Streitparth
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Ingrid Velleine
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Discussion
(Dame Cicely Saunders)