Chris Rich

“WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“To feel truly comforted by someone, you need to feel heard in your pain. You need the reality of your loss reflected back to you—not diminished, not diluted. It seems counterintuitive, but true comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand

“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.”
― Megan Devine, How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief

“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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture