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    Oliver Sacks
    “There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony . . . a terrible thing is the frightful clearness with which it manifests itself and the rapture with which it fills you. If this state were to last more than five seconds, the soul could not endure it and would have to disappear. During these five seconds I live a whole human existence, and for that I would give my whole life and not think that I was paying too dearly . . .”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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    Oliver Sacks
    “He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment.”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

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    Oliver Sacks
    “You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing . . . (I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life, as it did my mother’s . . .) —Luis Buñuel”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

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    Oliver Sacks
    “All of us, at first, had high hopes of helping Jammie - he was so personable, so likable, so quick and intelligent, it was difficult to believe that he might be beyond help. But none of us had ever encountered, even imagined, such a power of amnesia, the possibility of a pit into which everything, every experience, every event, would fathomlessly drop, a bottomless memory-hole that would engulf the whole world.”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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    Oliver Sacks
    “Dr. Sacks treats each of his subjects—the amnesic fifty-year-old man who believes himself to be a young sailor in the Navy, the “disembodied” woman whose limbs have become alien to her, and of course the famous man who mistook his wife for a hat—with a deep respect for the unique individual living beneath the disorder. These tales inspire awe and empathy, allowing the reader to enter the uncanny worlds of those with autism, Alzheimer's, Tourette's syndrome, and other unfathomable neurological conditions. “One of the great clinical writers of the 20th century” (The New York Times), Dr. Sacks brings to vivid life some of the most fundamental questions about identity and the human mind.”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

  • #6
    Oliver Sacks
    “Neurology and psychology, curiously, though they talk of everything else, almost never talk of ‘judgment’—”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

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    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

  • #8
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #9
    Anne Lamott
    “You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

  • #11
    Ellen Bass
    “to love life, to love it even
    when you have no stomach for it
    and everything you've held dear
    crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
    your throat filled with the silt of it.
    When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
    thickening the air, heavy as water
    more fit for gills than lungs;
    when grief weights you like your own flesh
    only more of it, an obesity of grief,
    you think, How can a body withstand this?
    Then you hold life like a face
    between your palms, a plain face,
    no charming smile, no violet eyes,
    and you say, yes, I will take you
    I will love you, again.”
    Ellen Bass

  • #12
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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    Dylan Thomas
    “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
    Dylan Thomas

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
    Shannon L. Alder

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    Nina Guilbeau
    “Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now.”
    Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters

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    Nan Goldin
    “I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
    Nan Goldin

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    Garth Stein
    “There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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    Garth Stein
    “To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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    Garth Stein
    “People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • #23
    Garth Stein
    “[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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    Garth Stein
    “This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • #25
    Garth Stein
    “In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • #26
    Garth Stein
    “I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • #27
    Garth Stein
    “To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • #28
    Garth Stein
    “Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own.

    ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.”
    Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • #29
    Lauren  Roberts
    “For those fearless enough to follow their heart”
    Lauren Roberts, Fearless

  • #30
    Lauren  Roberts
    “I love you. And I’ve been waiting to tell you since I realized your eyes are my favorite color and your freckles the only constellation worth looking at. I could lie—say that you’ve stolen my every thought and heartbeat like the thief you are, but all of me was already yours. Pae, you are my inevitable.”
    Lauren Roberts, Fearless



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