Chris Rich

“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

“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

“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.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When you are consumed by your grief, when life has lost its meaning and its beauty, when going forward seems impossible: May there be light, even if it’s the tiniest blip in the dark. May there be comforting arms around you, friendly steps beside you, and empathic ears to hear you. May you know that you are never again alone, and that if nothing else, you have a family of people who understand. Though we may not really “know” each other, we understand, and we are here. We are here.”
― Megan Devine, How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief