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Gratitude

by Oliver Sacks

Feb 05, 1998; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Neurologist OLIVER SACKS, M.D. at the Tourette’s Syndrom Benefit held at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Dr. SACKS is world-known for curing patients with sleepy sickness by bringing them back to life with L-dopa drug, accomplishment that inspired his second book and the Hollywood movie ”Awakenings”. (Credit Image: © Lisa O’Connor/ZUMAPRESS.com) (Newscom TagID: zumaglobalthree721523.jpg) [Photo via Newscom]

My predominant feeling is one of gratitude.
I have loved and been loved.
I have been given much and I have given something in return.
Above all, I have been a sentient being,
a thinking animal,
on this beautiful planet,
and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

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