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“I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return”

“The way we saw it, and the way our professors saw it, the purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.”

“All that arises passes away. This I know.”

“If you then become excessively focused on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfillment, or a more complete sense of self in it, the Now is no longer honored. It becomes reduced to a mere stepping stone to the future, with no intrinsic value. Clock time then turns into psychological time. Your life's journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to “make it”

“Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy.“

“A man who can’t love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed.”

“Love doesn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants don’t grow very well in a place where it is always dark.”

“they would always be the strangeest, most beautiful eyes he had ever seen, the eyes that come back to you, calm and deep, when you're hurt or in bad trouble or maybe just about out of your mind with grief.”

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just . . . come out the other side.
Or you don't.

“John had said everything was going to be alright. Funny how I believed those simple words from a friend more than news and rumors of war spoken by authority figures.”

“In the cold prison of our minds, we are alone with our self-hatred, our doubts, and guilt. A friend may reach through the bars and hold our hand, but they cannot open the door for us. Only the prisoner has the key.”

“Forgetting is essential to learning, just as exhaling is essential to breathing. Breathe out, then in. Find the self, then lose it once again. Thus, the path goes ever onward”

“I think of the stupidity of war. How ridiculous we must be to wage it when emotions like love run so much deeper in us than hate.”

“We achieve perfection first by acknowledging our failures. We increase understanding first by recognizing our ignorance.”

“I know by now that voice of reason is the enemy.
Inside me there is a coward who fears discomfort. That coward will offer solace in the form of excuses. But it is the coward who grooms a man for his defeats”

“I kept looking for hope in the world. Expecting the world to supply deliverance if I plucked the right chords. Demanding that it supply validation to my labor if I just gave enough effort. But that is not the nature of the world. Its nature is to consume. In time, it will consume us all, and the spheres will spin until they too are consumed when our sun dies.”

“He doubts me because the old do not remember the necessities of youth. They see on the years on our horizon to which they think we are entitled. But we are entitled only to the moment, and owe nothing to the future except that we follow our convictions”

“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven”

“I know it may be impossible to believe now, when everything is dark and broke, but you will survive this pain. Pain is a memory. You will live and you will struggle and you will find joy. And you will remember your family from this breath to your dying days, because love does not fade. Love is the stars, and its light carries on long after death.”

This is how life should be.
This peace. This laughter.
But even now I feel it sleeping through my fingers like that faraway sand.

“I was going to say something important. Something memorable. But I’ve forgotten it in her eyes. That gulf that divided us is still there, filled with questions and recrimination and guilt, but that’s only part of love, part of being human. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”

“My heart can’t stay here in this cage she herself has fled. It must move on”

"Ready over there, Goblin?" I ask Sevro over the com.
"Cacatne ursus in silvis?"
Does a bear shit in the woods?