"In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves."

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Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

Atul Gawande

#Meaningful Quotes #Pain Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.”
“No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!”
“If you smile, even if youâ€™re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking youâ€™re happy”
“My whole life is my work.”
“All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.”

Source : 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
“Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.”
“Peace with all the world is my sincerest wish.”
“You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.”

Source : "Cal Ripken, Jr. Looks Back on Hall of Fame Career, Looks Forward with New Book, 'Hothead'". "On the Record" with Martha Maccallum, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2011.

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