Ben Sherwood Quotes
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But at the bottom in surrender so complete there is no coherent thought, no real pain, no feeling, just exhaustion, just waiting, there is something else. Warmth/light/softness. Acceptance, by me, of me. Rest. After a while, some strength. Enough, for now.
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Fourth, lucky people have a special ability to turn bad luck into good fortune. Of all four defining factors involved in luck, Wiseman believes this one plays the most important role in survival.
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The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.
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These were her rituals, the rutines that made her feel alive and connected. Without them, where would she be? Lost
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That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.
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In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
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My patients are people who live on the edge of survival and beyond.
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They even come equipped with a built-in antibiotic called squalamine that helps them resist infections.
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On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.
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My definition of survivor encompasses people going through difficult times and also the friends and family who stand beside them. In the cancer community, they’re called cosurvivors or secondary patients.
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When you can’t fight or flee you flow.
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...the enduring human need to be remembered.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.
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...Charlie still smiled at the urn above the cash register with a gold plaque that said: ASHES OF PROBLEM CUSTOMERS.
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Now turn the page, come along on the ride, and let me tell you about the death and life of Charlie St. Cloud.
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And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.
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When that day come, we'll be waiting. Waiting for Charlie St. Cloud to come home to us. Until then we offer these parting words... May he live in peace.
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A time for every occupation under heaven. A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted; a time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing; a time for searching, a time for losing; a time for loving, a time for hating.
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Let's make one perfect day. And if it feels right, let's make another one tomorrow.
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And if you've ever wondered what happens when a person close to you is taken too soon-and it's always too soon-you may find other truths here, truths that may break the grip of sadness in your life, that may set you free from guilt, that may even bring you back to this world from wherever you are hiding. And then you will never fell alone.
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We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.
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Nothing had changed. Everything had changed.
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There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.