"I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time."

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Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.112, Vintage

Will Schwalbe

#Past Quotes #Dying Quotes #May Quotes

“It's hard [arriving just before the game], but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.”
“There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.”
“The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.”
“The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.”
“A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!”

Source : Larry Crabb (2009). “The Marriage Builder: A Blueprint for Couples and Counselors”, p.32, Harper Collins
“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”
“I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.”
“I was into David Bowie. I attracted long hair and earrings when it was quite a risque thing to do in Dublin. We didn't have the liberation that America and Britain in the '60s but I did always look to England and America, mainly because of the music that came from there.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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