“It is the fate of every human being,” Sacks writes, “to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life. 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. I have been given much and I have given something in return. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death. My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. 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.” -Oliver Sacks No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks.

“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. By Maria Popova Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts, proclaimed a 1924 guide to the art of living. His new, posthumously published essay collection is titled Gratitude. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Not everyone can count his blessings on his deathbed.

I have loved and been loved I have been given much and I have given something in return I have read and travelled and thought and written. A collection of essays written by Oliver Sacks as he neared the end of his life. You can read this before Gratitude PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Gratitude written by Oliver Sacks which was published in 2015-11. Brief Summary of Book: Gratitude by Oliver Sacks

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