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The measure of your life lies within.
“Ben, meet Lea. Lea, meet Ben.”
A Ben introduced me to this book and my name is Leah. Thought it was cute!
“They’re a reminder that sometimes we screw up, and sometimes the system screws with us, but if you live your life with enough passion and boldness, then that’s what you’ll be remembered for. Not the crap that happened along the way.”
Did a patient receive less care because her string was short, or was a patient’s string short because she received less care?
I’ll take your part when darkness comes, and pain is all around.
“You know, I watched a lot of people come to the end, and everyone around them kept begging them to fight. It takes real strength to keep on fighting, and yes, usually that’s the right answer. Keep fighting, keep holding on, no matter what. But sometimes I think we forget that it also takes strength to be able to let go.”
You didn’t need to die and be reborn in order to shift from one life to the next,
‘It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.’ You don’t need a long lifetime to make an impact on this world. You just need the will to do so.”
Se il per sempre non esiste lo inventeremo noi.
That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.
