My first read of 2023:
“When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi”
A deeply emotional, raw and insightful memoir which will make you appreciate life. A story from which we can all learn more about love, courage and humility. It’s worth an emotional investment.
“When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi”
A deeply emotional, raw and insightful memoir which will make you appreciate life. A story from which we can all learn more about love, courage and humility. It’s worth an emotional investment.
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
— Paul Kalanithi
— Paul Kalanithi
“At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living.”
— Paul Kalanithi
— Paul Kalanithi
“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
— Paul Kalanithi
— Paul Kalanithi
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
— Paul Kalanithi
— Paul Kalanithi
“Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”
— Paul Kalanithi
— Paul Kalanithi
“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
— Paul K
— Paul K
“One key to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love, vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful.”
— Lucy Kalanithi
— Lucy Kalanithi
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