“I would finally just like to advise you to grow through your development quietly and seriously; you can interrupt it in no more violent manner than by looking outwards, and expecting answer from outside to questions which perhaps only your innermost feeling in your most silent hour can answer.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Yet yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
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“Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that’s what you’ve wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that’s what’s on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, how are you going to handle it? In other words, “Now what?”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
“There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being “right.”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment”
― On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
― On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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