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“So better health is a direct result of healthy relationships. You don’t need a spouse, you just need someone you can trust, you need someone you can talk to, you need someone who will celebrate your wins and grieve your losses, you need someone who can forgive you, you need someone who will show, no questions asked and walk with you through every unexpected twists and turns life throws your way.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: All of Me
Tagged: healthy, Relationships, Trust, Celebrate, grieve, twists and turns, Life
“Where’s the liver? I lost the liver! Have you seen it? It’s... it’s liver shaped.”
— Dr. Maggie Pierce, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Judgement Day
Tagged: Liver, lost, shaped, Frantic
“All right, people are dying. It is your job to save their lives.”
— Dr. April Kepner, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Caught Somewhere in Time
Tagged: Dying, Job, save, Lives
“Every day, I compete with death, and more often than not- I win.”
— Dr. Owen Hunt, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Tagged: Compete, Death, Win
“I am your Chief Resident. What does that mean? It means that I am your chief. Your boss, your commander, your overlord, your queen. It means when I speak, you listen.”
— Dr. Jo Wilson, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Out of Nowhere
Tagged: chief, Meaning, Respect, Command, boss, commander, Queen
“If you want to be a shark, be a shark. Don’t apologize for it.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Get off on the Pain
Tagged: Shark, Identity, Apologies, go confidently, Metaphor Examples
“I’m a freaking WARRIOR QUEEN!”
— Dr. Jo Wilson, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Break Down the House
Tagged: freaking, Self Confidence, warrior queen
“They say the bigger your investment, the bigger your return. But you have to be willing to take a chance. You have to understand, you might lose it all. But if you take that chance, if you invest wisely, the payoff just might surprise you.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 6: Invest In Love
Tagged: Investment, Return, payoff
“Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than we can imagine. You can’t see them with the naked eye. And then, there are the wounds that take us by surprise.

The trick with any kind of wound or disease, is to dig down and find the real source of the injury. And once you’ve found it…try like hell to heal that sucker.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Where the Boys Are
Tagged: wounds, Superficial Wouinds, Naked Eye
“The length of your recovery is determined by the extent of your injuries. And it’s not always successful. No matter how hard we work at it, some wounds might never fully heal. You might have to adjust to a whole new way of living. Things may have changed too radically to ever go back to what they were. It might not even recognize yourself. It’s like you haven’t recovered anything at all. You’re a whole new person with a whole new life.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 7: It's a Long Way Back
Tagged: Recovery, injuries, wounds, New Life
“Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point, we all have to choose. Do we fall back on what we know? Or, do we step forward, to something new? It’s hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us, what guides us.

Our history resurfaces. Time, after time, after time. So we have to remember. Sometimes, the most important history, is the history we’re making today.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Time After Time
Tagged: History, Past, Recurrence
“Who gets to determine when the old ends, and the new begins? It’s not a day on a calendar, not a birthday, not a new year. It’s an event. Big or small. Something that changes us. Ideally, it gives us hope.
A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories. What’s important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning. But it’s also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Begin the Begin
Tagged: Old and New, old habits, Old Memories, New Beginning
“Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He's very dreamy but he's not the sun, you are.”
— Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy, Season 10: Fear
Tagged: Wants, Needs, Sun, Eclipse, Power
“We’re petrified of saying too much or saying it wrong. When the truth is, the only wrong thing you can say is nothing at all.”
— Dr. Jackson Avery, Grey's Anatomy, Season 13: Who Is He
Tagged: Saying Nothing, Anxiety About What You Say, Just Say Something
“The key to making progress is to recognize how to take that very first step. Then you start your journey. You hope for the best and you stick with it, day in, day out. Even if you're tired, even if you want to walk away, you don't. Because you are a pioneer. And nobody ever said it'd be easy.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 10: Man on the Moon
Tagged: Pioneer, Words of Encouragement, You Rock, Motivational
“There’s an end to every storm. Once all the trees have been uprooted. Once all the houses have been ripped apart. The wind will hush. The clouds will part. The rain will stop. The sky will clear in an instant and only then, in those quiet moments after the storm, do we learn who was strong enough to survive it.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 9: Perfect Storm
Tagged: Storms, surviving, After The Storm, When The Dust Settles
“Failure is inevitable, unavoidable. But failure should never get the last word. You have to hold on to what you want. You have to not take no for an answer, and take what’s coming to you. Never give in. Never give up. Stand up. Stand up and take it.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 10: Get Up, Stand Up
Tagged: Never Give Up, Failure, go for it, Persistence
“You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Great Expectations
Tagged: Standing Still, Unexpected Things
“Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose, or draw, the game is in progress, whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead argue with the refs, change the rules, cheat a little, take a break and tend to your wounds. But play. Play hard, play fast, play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. Okay, so it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game, right?”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: The Name of the Game
Tagged: Life, Rules of Life, Win and Losing, The Game of Life
“Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Time Has Come Today
“The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Sometimes a Fantasy
Tagged: No Good Without The Bad, Part and Parcel, Meaning in Our Suffering
“You don't get to call me a whore. When I met you, I thought I had found the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done, so all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues. Who cared, because I was done. You left me. You chose Addison. I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Damage Case
Tagged: Whore, Apologies
“We're all damaged, it seems. Some of us, more than others....We carry the damage with us from childhood, then as grownups, we give as good as we get....Ultimately, we all do damage....And then, we set about the business of fixing whatever we can.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Damage Case
Tagged: damaged, Grownups, Childhood
“I tell the truth. It's what I do. It doesn't make me a bad doctor. Everyone walks around this place lying. Look we tell the patient that's dying that there's hope when there is no hope. Maybe I'm a pig, maybe I'm an ass, and maybe I'm a varmint like everybody says. But I tell them the truth. It's the one thing that I've got going for me. And you don't get to take that away from me and call it a lesson.”
— Dr. Alex Karev, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: The Name of the Game
Tagged: Truth, Pig, ass, Varmint
“Do you think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my wife? I'm married, I have responsibilities! She doesn't drive me crazy! She doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal! She doesn't make me sick to my stomach thinking about my veterinarian touching her with his hands! Oh, man, I would give anything not to be looking at you.”
— Dr. Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Losing My Religion
Tagged: Responsibilities, married, Wife
“There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile...and then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can't even figure out why you're making. A wise man once said, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant it, nothing comes without a price....So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building. Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming....When we don't have time to come up with a strategy, to pick a side, or to measure the potential loss.When that happens, when the battle chooses us, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Blues for Sister Someone
Tagged: Good Days, Bad Days, Sacrifice
“One way or another our karma will leave us to face ourselves. We can look our karma in the eye or we can wait for it to sneak up on us from behind....One way or another, our karma will always find us....And the truth is, as surgeons, we have more chances than most to set the balance in our favor....No matter how hard we try we can't escape our karma. It follows us home....I guess we can't really complain about karma. It's not unfair. It's not unexpected. It just...evens the score. And even when we're about to do something we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass...well, it goes without saying....We do it anyway.”
— Dr. George O'Malley, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Tagged: Karma, Justice, Revenge
“A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, pain and the play by play. And then there are the more solitary games....The games we each play all by ourselves....The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass the time to make life more interesting to distract us from what's really going on....There are those of us who love to play games, any games. And there are those of us who love to play a little too much.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: The Name of the Game
Tagged: Basketball, Games, Playing, Competition
“As doctors, as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can....But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you're lucky, you'll end up with nothing more than a flesh wound, something a Band-Aid will cover....But, some wounds are deeper than they first appear and require more than just a quick fix....With some wounds, you have to rip off the band-aid, let them breathe, and give them time to heal.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole
Tagged: doctors, Patients, Friends, human beings, wounds
“What? So I slept with him again. So I'm a big whore. A big horny whore who can't get enough.”
— Dr. Izzie Stevens, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Tagged: Whore, Horny, Sex
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