Haskell Murray

“I have always believed our real enemy is denying our shared poverty, which leads to a lack of understanding of and empathy for one another.”
― Charles Strobel, The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home

“Divine discontent lives in us whenever we yearn for this kind of love, whenever we imagine a world without war, a nation without poverty, a city without homelessness, a family without abuse, children without empty stomachs, and an economic system without greed.”
― Charles Strobel, The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home

“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“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.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air