“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
― Little Foxes; or, The Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
― Little Foxes; or, The Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”
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“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think life asks more of you than watching TV.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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