“What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance”
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
“What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Doctors diagnose, nurses heal, and caregivers make sense of it all.”
― Family Caregiving
― Family Caregiving
“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
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