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“You are a human being, and your birthright is to remain fully human. So you get to be everything: loud quiet bold smart careful impulsive creative joyful big angry curious ravenous ambitious. You are allowed to take up space on this earth with your feelings, your ideas, your body. You do not need to shrink. You do not need to hide any part of yourself, ever.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living

“You might think sitting with someone who is dying means you will be having big conversations about the meaning of life,” a hospice chaplain had advised me. “Wrong! Sometimes, all that’s called for is to just show up and watch Jeopardy! together.”
― Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

“The tendency in many parts of medicine is, if we can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist, or the patient is cuckoo.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

“This is how we go forward, step by step, infusing darkness with light.”
― Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind