"When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition……" — Josh Lanyon
"When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness."
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81 Quotes by Josh Lanyon
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You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.
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Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat.…
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'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing…
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Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
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I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
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Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence.…
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You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant.…
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Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.
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He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get…
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Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.
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I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you…
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He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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