When Breath Becomes Air

by 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.

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

You have to figure out what’s most important to you.

“We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can’t live up to it all the time.”