When Breath Becomes Air

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”

“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”

“Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does.”

“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.”

“The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”