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Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir QUOTES

1 " A troubled life beats having no life at all "

― , Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

2 " Going at it alone had been my badge of honor. How foolish. I confused silence with strength.... Shutting out others is weak and grossly unfair to those around us. "

― , Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

3 " We all need to appreciate ourselves for what we are and stop whining about what we are not. I grow weary of wishing so desperately for something else. Those concerns find no resolution. All I can do is do what I can do.... "

― , Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

4 " My advice to myself is simple. Run with MS, not away from it. That race from existing illness cannot be won. See the truth. We move forward with grace when the wind is at our backs. "

― , Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

5 " Those of us who battle chronic illness are in it for the long haul. I need to come to grips with who I am and what is important before I can function at my best with others. That has yet to happen, for I am a work in progress with no end in sight. Coping is forever an aspiration. I need to stop getting hung up on conventional issues of control and inabilities that just do not matter. "

― , Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

6 " I am not sure of the future," he says, "b."ut I will take it as it comes." Adjust, after the fact. Do not simply react to the possibilities. "

― , Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

7 " I am not sure of the future," he [Cohen's father] says, "but I will take it as it comes." Adjust, after the fact. Do not simply react to possibility. "

― , Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir