"I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my..." - Oliver Sacks

🙏 Gratitude

“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.”

Sacks chooses gratitude as his primary response despite the presence of fear.

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— Martial

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe, before it's gone.”

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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

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“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

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