"The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing."

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Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

Mary Roach

#Funeral Quotes #Decay Quotes #Body Quotes

“We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.”
“We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE”

Source : Deena Metzger (1981). “The woman who slept with men to take the war out of them ; & Tree”
“That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain.”
“It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.”
“I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.”

Source : "Antony Sher, actor - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.
“If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.”
“Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.”
“Every man is a hero of his own story.”

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