“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. —”
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“I expected to feel only empty and heartbroken after Paul died. It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Any major illness transforms a patient’s—really, an entire family’s—life.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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