Atul Gawande Mean Quotations

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

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.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.