"I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time."

-- Siddhartha Mukherjee

#Cancer Quotes #Levels Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say it's hard.”

Source : "A Picnic of Poems: In Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

Source : Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press
“You could ask yourself, 'How did God Bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings. And sometimes you will have gifts brought to your mind which you failed to notice during the day, but which you will then know were a touch of God's hand in your life.”
“I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.”
“It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."”
“I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”
“I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.”
“Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.”

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