The impossible hungry mouth of her loneliness wanted to swallow her in a single piece.
“I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Those burdens are what make medicine holy and wholly impossible: in taking up another’s cross, one must sometimes get crushed by the weight.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“What kind of life exists without language?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“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
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