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Shoe Dog
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again, this was Oregon. The trees always seemed to know. The trees always had your back.
“But that’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you like it or not, it will try to define your days. Our task as human beings is not to let it.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“Friendships are like backyard gardens we plan to tend to them, we just always somehow put it off 'til next week.”
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“Shouldn’t terminal illness, then, be the perfect gift to that young man who had wanted to understand death? What better way to understand it than to live it?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living. Would you trade your ability—or your mother’s—to talk for a few extra months of mute life?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“In these moments, I acted not, as I most often did, as death’s enemy, but as its ambassador”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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