“I was alone. In the uniqueness of the experience, no one knew my reality. But what was more unique, was being gracefully on the receiving end of life’s work and passion. A tree branch being visited by birds with no agenda other than to share what comes natural.”
― In the Space Between Moments: Finding Joy and Meaning in Medicine
― In the Space Between Moments: Finding Joy and Meaning in Medicine
“I had never thought that I was good enough, fast enough, strong enough, thin enough, pretty enough, smart enough, or any other “enough.” Nothing I did had ever met my own unattainable expectations of what “enough” was. Is that why I threw myself into the hardest physical endeavor I could think of? Was I simply desperate to do something that would make me approve of myself?”
― Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
― Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
“No matter where you go or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven't seen anything. And that's life. We live our lives trying to find our way. It's like that Santoka Taneda poem, the one that goes, 'On and on, in and in, and still the blue-green mountains”
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“Joy, collected over time, breeds resilience.”
― In the Space Between Moments: Finding Joy and Meaning in Medicine
― In the Space Between Moments: Finding Joy and Meaning in Medicine
“In her dreams, other kinds of life could talk, and she understood them. And they told her what was really happening on this planet, the system of invisible suffering on unimaginable scales. Human appetite's final solution.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
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