"To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen."

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Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.58, Random House

Jerome Groopman

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“Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”
“You donâ€™t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.”
“Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.”
“But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. â€œYou're green. Are you sick?â€ â€œIt's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,â€ I say. â€œIt's meant to be pretty,â€ whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, â€œI think you'd be pretty in any color.”
“You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.”
“The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.”
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
“The body is a rock; the arms are snakes”

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