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“Busy losing every right now for a forever beyond.”
― Aashi Dhaniya

“Art is paraphrasing your subconscious mind.”
― Aashi Dhaniya

“Your reality is your intellectual property. Make it a good one.”
― Aashi Dhaniya

“It's okay if some days feel like you used up all your courage on the slot machine.”
― Aashi Dhaniya

“Juliette ? ” A tentative voice . “ Are you okay? ” I lower the pillow . Blink up . Warner is wearing a towel . A towel . I want to roll under the bed .”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It hits me with a painful force, the reminder. Of just how much I love her. God, I love all of her. Her impossibilities, her exasperations. I love how gentle she is with me when we’re alone. How soft and kind she can be in our quiet moments. How she never hesitates to defend me.
I love her.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"

"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
― 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

“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“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, When Breath Becomes Air

“Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of life is metabolism, and death its cessation.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job --- not a calling.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Severe illness wasn’t life-altering, it was life-shattering. It felt less like an epiphany—a piercing burst of light, illuminating What Really Matters—and more like someone had just firebombed the path forward.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Our suffering can make us callous to the obvious suffering of another.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“So what tense am I living in now?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Doctors, it turns out, need hope, too.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air