“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
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin – one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war.”
― The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
― The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
“A healthy feeling of inferiority is not something that comes from comparing oneself to others; it comes from one’s comparison with one’s ideal self.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
― The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“Maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we’re this close to the devil.”
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
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