Ablation Quotes & Sayings

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay. — Bruce Lee

Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the Divine Substance ... — C.S. Lewis

He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold. — Edith Pearlman

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do. — Clive James

Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours. — Elizabeth McCracken

Everest attempt at sixty-two, three weeks after undergoing surgery for kidney cancer, marathon des Sables six months after it was amputated fingers and toes, be measured by the diagonal of Fools four weeks after ablation of a metastasis to the lung, is this possible? Cancer does not stop your life, giving up your dreams or your goals, it is simply a parameter to manage, no more, no less than all the other parameters of life.
How to ensure that the disease becomes transparent to you and your entourage, almost insignificant in terms of trip you want to accomplish? This is precisely the question that Gerard Bourrat tries to answer in this book. To make a sports performance, to live with her cancer, to live well with amputations, the path is always the same: a goal, the joy of effort, perseverance and faith.
This book does not commit you to climb Everest, to run under a blazing sun, walking thousands of miles, it invites you to conquer your own Everest. — Gerard Bourrat

Holston lifted an old boot to an old step, pressed down, and did it again. He lost himself in what the untold years had done, the ablation of molecules and lives, layers and layers ground to fine dust. And he thought, not for the first time, that neither life nor staircase had been meant for such an existence. The tight confines of that long spiral, threading — Hugh Howey

I love the vastness of the ocean. I love its serenity, tranquility, humility, and purifying power. — Debasish Mridha

He chewed my head off about the "threadsoul," the "causal body," "ablation," the Upanishads, Plotinus, Krishnamurti, "the karmic vestiture of the soul," "the Nirvanic consciousness," all that flapdoodle which blows out of the east like a breath from the plague ... he had worn himself out, like a coat whose nape is worn off. — Henry Miller