“The past is dead and gone, the future stops being the future once it gets here, so the present moment’s the only thing you’re responsible for.”
“Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can't happen... we're not going to do anything very interesting.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“A faithful friend is a strong protection. A person who has found one has found a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price, And his value cannot be weighed. A faithful friend is a life-giving medicine. — The Apocrypha”
― Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
― Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
“Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.”
― What the Dead Know
― What the Dead Know
“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
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