Acceptance Quote by Atul Gawande Download Open image “Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.” — Atul Gawande ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptance Arriving Death Epiphany Mortality Process
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the… — Sting Copy Share Image
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I accept death as a part of life, but I don't accept that we have the time given to us to live in denial… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Wilson spent several days camped out in one government office after another until she had secured an exemption. Unbelievably, she and her husband cleared… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“8. Chapter 4 describes the birth of the assisted-living facility concept (Park Place), designed by Keren Wilson to provide her disabled mother, Jessie, with… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young and healthy,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend he escaped unscathed. The extended period of low blood pressure damaged an optic nerve and left him essentially blind in one… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life, — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“an average of $94,000 during the last year of life with a metastatic breast cancer. Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
“Loving someone who does not love you back hurts, alot, i know. It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at the retail store… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
Take responsibily for your past, the bad memories of poor decisions you took were your choices once, and you liked them for the moment… — Aruho Marvin Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept and appreciate things now, and we'll find more happiness in every moment we live. Happiness comes when we stop… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Accepting the challenges in life makes it interesting and overcoming them makes it eloquent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image