Benjamin Pauwels

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

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“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