

“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, “Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again”—my gut reaction is, “What a badass.”
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone’s lives.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“We are, as a matter of empirical fact and undeniable history, the greatest force for good the world has ever known.”
― Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America
― Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~”
― The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art
― The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art

“That’s all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day.”
― An Artificial Night
― An Artificial Night
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