“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.
10 Wisdom from the book 🧵
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.
10 Wisdom from the book 🧵
1) What makes human life meaningful?
I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.
I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.
2) 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.
We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.
3) You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.
4) When there’s no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool.
5) The question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living.
6) 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.
It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
7) Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.
8) Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing:
the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.
the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.
9) 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.
10) 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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