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“All the idylls of youth: beauty manifest in lakes, mountains, people; richness in experience, conversation, friendships. Nights during a full moon, the light flooded the wilderness, so it was possible to hike without a headlamp. We would hit the trail at two A.M., summiting the nearest peak, Mount Tallac, just before sunrise, the clear, starry night reflected in the flat, still lakes spread below us. Snuggled together in sleeping bags at the peak, nearly ten thousand feet up, we weathered frigid blasts of wind with coffee someone had been thoughtful enough to bring. And then we would sit and watch as the first hint of sunlight, a light tinge of day blue, would leak out of the eastern horizon, slowly erasing the stars. The day sky would spread wide and high, until the first ray of the sun made an appearance. The morning commuters began to animate the distant South Lake Tahoe roads. But craning your head back, you could see the day’s blue darken halfway across the sky, and to the west, the night remained yet unconquered—pitch-black, stars in full glimmer, the full moon still pinned in the sky. To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can explain the sublime better than this, standing between day and night. It was as if this were the moment God said, “Let there be light!” You could not help but feel your specklike existence against the immensity of the mountain, the earth, the universe, and yet still feel your own two feet on the talus, reaffirming your presence amid the grandeur.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
“Death comes for all of us. For us, for our patients: it is our fate as living, breathing, metabolizing organisms. Most lives are lived with passivity toward death -- it's something that happens to you and those around you. But Jeff and I had trained for years to actively engage with death, to grapple with it, like Jacob with the angel, and, in so doing, to confront the meaning of a life. We had assumed an onerous yoke, that of mortal responsibility. Our patients' lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins. Even if you are perfect, the world isn't. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win for your patients. You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
“Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present. Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes described, hold so little interest: a chasing after wind, indeed.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
“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, When Breath Becomes Air
“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
“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 Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
“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, When Breath Becomes Air
“We shall rise insensibly, and reach the tops of the everlasting hills, where the winds are cool and the sight is glorious.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
BIO
Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks.
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2018-03-01 06:42:00
"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit." ~Frank Borman (from Bernie Lamberz)
Frank Borman - Exploration
2018-03-01 06:42:00
Der, welcher in ein Land reist, bevor er einige Kenntnisse von dessen Sprache hat, geht in die Schule und nicht auf Reisen. (Francis Bacon)
Der, welcher in ein Land reist, bevor er
2018-02-27 01:11:06
"Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life." ~Protagoras
"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves." ~Protagoras
"Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are so, and of things which are not, that they are not." ~Protagoras
"No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly." ~Protagoras
"There are two sides to every question." ~Protagoras?????? ????? ??????THANK YOU?????? ????? ??????
Protagoras Quotes
2018-02-23 05:24:00
"Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power." ~Newton Lee
Newton Lee - power
2018-02-23 04:49:00
”He who sleeps on the floor will not fall off the bed.” ~Robert Gronock (from Yogi Alejo)
Robert Gronock - sleep
2018-02-23 04:44:00
"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” ~Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan - version of reality
2018-02-22 04:45:00
Ein Krimi-Regisseur ist ein Mann, der im Dunkeln Gänsehaut verkauft. (Alfred Hitchcock)
Ein Krimi-Regisseur ist ein Mann, der im
2018-02-22 01:11:14
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks." ~Herodotus
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." ~Herodotus
"In soft regions are born soft men." ~Herodotus
"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing." ~Herodotus
"Men trust their ears less than their eyes." ~Herodotus
“No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.” ~Herodotus
"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing." ~Herodotus
"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects." ~Herodotus?????? ????? ??????THANK YOU?????? ????? ??????
Herodotus Quotes
2018-02-21 18:33:00
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." ~Aeschylus
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." ~Aeschylus
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. " ~Aeschylus
“Nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know." ~Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Everyman's Library)
“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.” ~Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Everyman's Library)
“What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?” ~Aeschylus on Hospitality?????? ????? ??????THANK YOU?????? ????? ??????
Aeschylus Quotes
2018-02-21 18:26:00
"It is not possible to perfect oneself in an instant. We each have our own attainments, and each day’s cultivation means each day’s growth." ~Master Hsing Yun
Hsing Yun - growth
2018-02-21 18:04:00
Nachdem Gott die Welt erschaffen hatte, schuf er Mann und Frau. Um das ganze vor dem Untergang zu bewahren, erfand er den Humor. (Guillermo Mordillo)
Nachdem Gott die Welt erschaffen hatte, schuf
2018-02-20 01:11:41
"If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere." ~David Suzuki
David Suzuki - windmills
2018-02-19 12:17:00
"Photography is a hobby for me but I do spend most of my free time rising early for sunrises and chasing sunsets and the occasional storm when I can. I tend to only photograph nature in all its wonderful elements as being immersed in nature has been a wonderful healer for me – mind, body and soul.” ~Kylie Roberts (Nikon)
Kylie Roberts - Photography
2018-02-19 11:42:00
"Help me to conquer anger with gentleness, greed by generosity, apathy by fervor. Help me to forget myself and reach out towards others." ~Pope Clement
Pope Clement
2018-02-19 09:04:00
"You can take away my freedom but my spirit will run free." ~Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz - freedom
2018-02-19 08:55:00
"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past." ~Charles J. Givens
Charles J. Givens - future
2018-02-19 08:45:00
"If you want to see the truth, you must be brave enough to look." ~Rune Lazuli
Rune Lazuli - truth
2018-02-19 08:45:00
Ich habe in den fünf Monaten meines Altenburger Aufenthaltes geistig mehr gelebt und erlebt, als manchem Erdenkinde im ganzen Leben oft beschieden sein wird. (Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus)
Ich habe in den fünf Monaten meines Altenburger
2018-02-16 01:11:47
"And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare
"And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare
2018-02-15 07:44:46
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