Jerri Nielsen Quotes

• I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Life, Believe, Years

  Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Death, Alive, Dies

  Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

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• I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Night, Tunes, World

  Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

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• I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Believe, Moving, Air

  Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

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