Every loss you withstand in your life reopens all the others. Every goodbye is every goodbye.

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

As long as I get to spend it with you, one blink of an eye in the vastness is enough for me.

“Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant, we withhold belief. Whatever annoyance the uncertainty engenders serves a higher purpose. It drives us to accumulate better data.”

By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness; in reality there are atoms and space. —DEMOCRITUS

No matter what the universe has in store, it cannot take away from the fact that you were born. You’ll have some joy and some pain, and all the other experiences that make up what it’s like to be a tiny part of a grand cosmos. No matter what happens next, you were here. And even when any record of our individual lives is lost to the ages, that

One of the last things he said to me was “I’m sorry.” I could not understand, for many years, why he could possibly be apologizing to me. I should have been apologizing to him. He was the one who was in so much pain. He was the one who was dying. But he understood what I was too shocked to grasp. This would be the defining event of my life. Every

In this plate of food, I see clearly the presence of the entire universe supporting my existence.

which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. —ALEXANDER POPE