" How is it that we ever manage to forget how brief and fragile our lives are? The time will come when your body will stop working. Your mind—now in constant movement, containing vast galaxies—will no longer think. Of course, you know this; you, as much as anyone else, are subject to those brief, terrifying moments of clarity. Bright bursts of anxiety, blooming and swelling. But is that all you’re supposed to do with that knowledge—fear it? Or are you supposed to hold on to it, use it to figure out how you want to move through the wor "

― Carolyn Parkhurst , Harmony