

“The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win for your patients. You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
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“Words began to feel as weightless as the breath that carried them.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air

“believe that God protects me from nothing but sustains me in everything.”
― Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
― Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air

“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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