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“I don’t know how you do it.” Heather. Her neighbor. This was another thing people always said, criticism disguised as compliment. Rosie laughed. Fake laughed. “Well. You know.” “No, I mean seriously.” But she did not mean seriously.
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Journalism is an enemy of rationality. What makes news? The unusual and the spectacular, which by their nature distort reality and pervert our decisions. You read headlines like 15 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN WYOMING. You don’t read headlines like ANOTHER 2,000 DIED OF HEART DISEASE YESTERDAY. This leads to the Availability Fallacy. Our lazy mind gloms on to the most vivid, emotional examples. When we think of danger, we think of hideous plane crashes or acts of terrorism, even though boring old cars kill eighty-four times more people.”
― The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
― The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
“without that duty to care for the ill pushing me forward, I became an invalid.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.”
― Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want
― Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want
“Love is an unconditional state of being.”
― Waiting to Live
― Waiting to Live
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