Benjamin Pauwels

“I remember thinking that I would never be a kid again, not really, which was the first time I can recall feeling that intense longing for the you to whom you can never return.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“The moral? To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“Folk wisdom has it that five Jews wrote the rules of society: Moses said, “The law is everything.” Jesus said, “Love is everything.” Marx said, “Money is everything.” Freud said, “Sex is everything.” Einstein said, “Everything is relative.”
― Norman Lebrecht, Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

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