“WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.”
― The Lost Symbol
― The Lost Symbol
“nightmares about your loss can make sleep something you’d rather avoid. Nightmares suck. And yet recurrent dreams, or dreams that have you delivering the news about death over and over, are actually a healthy and necessary part of grief. Dream-state sleep is when our mind does the deep, heavy work of breaking down the reality of loss into absorbable pieces.”
― How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief
― How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief
“what I liked most about the original Rocky movie was that Rocky didn’t care if he won the fight that ends the film. He just didn’t want to get knocked out. That was his goal. During the most painful times of my treatment, Rocky was an inspiration because he reminded me: It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit ...and keep moving forward.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“I let the slide linger, so the audience could follow the arrows and count my tumors. “All right,” I said. “That is what it is. We can’t change it. We just have to decide how we’ll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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