Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal Quotes
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.
Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.
Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.
We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.