Benjamin Pauwels

“Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“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

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

“...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love