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"I’m gonna finish this month if it’s thr last thing I do" — May 13, 2024 05:50AM
"I’m gonna finish this month if it’s thr last thing I do" — May 13, 2024 05:50AM
“The great American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.â€� You don’t need a long lifetime to make an impact on this world. You just need the will to do so.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“As I attempted to cobble together the former pieces of myself with what was left, I thought it was normal to feel sad for perhaps the first few weeks. I didn't know it was normal to feel sad on and off for years, for what feels like it will be for the rest of my life. I didn't know anger, envy, frustration, depression, anxiety, and shame were common elements of grief. I did not understand the importance of grace and the need to extend it to myself and others. I had no idea that grief was actively impacting my body and my brain in ways that made maintaining my health, my career, and my relationships challenging.”
― Grief Is Love: Living with Loss
― Grief Is Love: Living with Loss
“We humans have an impulse to mark our existence in some way that feels permanent. We scribble ‘I was hereâ€� onto our desks at school. We spray paint it on walls. We carve it into bark. I was here. I wanted this sculpture to do to the same, to let it be know that these people lived. A testament to the fact that these humans â€� with their long strings and medium strings and short strings â€� they were here.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“Perhaps that’s why she wanted so many children. A set of Russian nesting dolls, each one a slightly smaller version of the last, to absorb the tsunami of her raging emotions.”
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
“Life is meaningful because it ends. We are brief blips on a long timeline, colliding with other people, other unlikely collections of atoms and energy that somehow existed at the same time we did. Even in the best of circumstances, being reanimated could result in a permanent homesickness for a time and a place you cannot return to. A time and a place that no longer exists. But if none of this is hurting anybody, if it helps these people live and it helps them die, I see no reason to deprive them of their experiment, or to mock it. I like their optimism but I do not share it. We do what we can to get by, it's a lullaby on a deathbed.”
― All the Living and the Dead
― All the Living and the Dead
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