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Intensive Care: True Stories of Healing, Heartache and Hope from Inside Irish Children's Medicine

by Dr Suzanne Crowe

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The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers

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In the case of man, that which he creates is more expressive of him than that which he begets. The image of the artist and the poet is imprinted more clearly on his works than on his children.—NICHOLAS BERDYAEV: The Destiny of Man.

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“Poi si tornò all’ eterna fontana.

Then she turned back to the eternal fountain.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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“We’ve turned faith into a right to certitude when, in fact, this Trinitarian mystery is whispering quite the opposite: we have to live in exquisite, terrible humility before reality.”
― Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

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“I no longer think that anything can happen. I no longer want to think that way. Happen is what you wait for, not what you do; and anything is a large category.”
― Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips

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“Today I hit rock bottom but didn’t busy myself with activity to take my mind off it, like I usually do. I allowed myself to sink as deep as possible. It’s like an infection: let it run its course and be done with it. Rising, I felt cleansed.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

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“To grow in love-ability is to accept the boundaries of oneself and others, while remaining vulnerable, woundable, around the bounds. Acknowledgement of conditionality is the only unconditionality of human love.”
― Gillian Rose, Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

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