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“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper

“Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“Hope is not a plan”
― Anderson Cooper

“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”
― Anderson Cooper

“Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself”
― Anderson Cooper

“The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“But in truth, the world is constantly shifting: shape and size, location in space. It's got edges and chasms, too many to count. They open up, close, reappear somewhere else. Geologists nay have mapped out the planet's tectonic plates -hidden shelves of rock that grind, one against the other, forming mountains, creating continents - but thy can't plot the fault lines that run through our heads, divide out hearts.
The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.”
― Anderson Cooper

“Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.”
― Anderson Cooper

“I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.”
― Anderson Cooper

“I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.”
― Anderson Cooper, Cursed by the Chance

“You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind. Take”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don’t be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns. There is so much to be joyful about, so many different kinds of rainbows in one’s life: making love is an incredible rainbow, as is falling in love; knowing friendship; being able to really talk with someone who has a problem and say something that will help; waking up in the morning, looking out, and seeing a tree that has suddenly blossomed, like the one I have outside my window—what joy that brings. It may seem a small thing, but rainbows come in all sizes. I think about Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz singing, about where “bluebirds fly,” and Jan Peerce singing about “a bluebird of happiness.” Well, they may never find it, they may never reach it, and that’s okay. The searching, that’s what I think life is really all about. Don’t you? I”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“In 1920, shortly before he died, he was quoted in the New York Times saying, “My life was never destined to be quite happy. . . . Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness. It is as certain a death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing,”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“Gilded sin is so much more interesting than ragged sin,” she reflected. “Scandal dressed in ermine and purple is much more salacious than scandal in overalls or a kitchen apron.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“A few central myths appear again and again in Americans’ popular imagination: that success is available to anyone who is willing to work hard, for example, and that success is worthier of celebration if it is achieved without help.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“I love you in ways that are infinite and as in eternity have no beginning or end.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“You recently read me a quote by Faulkner: "The past isn't dead, it's not even past." So much of our adult lives is influenced by what happened to us as children. It is all still there, the memories, the feelings, and fears, stored just beneath the surface in the hidden crannies of our cortex.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“No one seemed to understand. I’d go to movies, see friends, but after a couple days I’d catch myself reading plane schedules, looking for something, someplace to go: a bomb in Afghanistan, a flood in Haiti. I’d become a predator, endlessly gliding in saltwater seas, searching for the scent of blood.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“The more I saw, however, the more I needed to see. I tried to settle down back home in Los Angeles, but I missed that feeling, that rush. I went to see a doctor about it. He told me I should slow down for a while, take a break. I just nodded and left, booked a flight out that day. It didn’t seem possible to stop.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“Let it be my motto, as well as yours. Ever upward, as a new life, a new day begins. Have faith that something unexpected and wonderful is moving toward you at incredible speed-EXCELSIOR! Yes, ever upward we must go, and go together.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“At the very least,” she’d written to me once, “when we die we will be as if asleep, in the same place we were before birth, so why fear death? Scattered on the wind, unaware as we were before we came into this world, with no memory of any of it.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“Someone recently said to me that it is easier to be clever than it is to be kind, and I think that is very true. So I add to my list of regrets the times I have not been kind, choosing instead to be clever, usually at someone else’s expense.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“Hard to imagine that the man who made the Gilded Age according to his whims and who died on the cusp of the twentieth century had a great-grandfather born the same year as the Salem witch trials, but such are the long spans of generations.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“Inside, however, in our core, past the aches, pains and creaking joints of age, youth still resides. Keep that in mind. As”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“We ike to think we are our own people, but sometimes it seems we are just playing out a script that was imprinted in us along ago.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss