Kareem Saad

“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

“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.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“دَعني أتقدّم بصلاتي
لا لأكون بمنجى من الأخطار
ولكن لأقابلها وجهاً لوجه دون وجل
لا لأسأل التفريج عن ألمي
ولكن ليكون لي الجلد على تحمله
لا لأنتظر حليفاً لي في معركة الحياة
ولكن لأنتظر العون من قوتي نفسها
لا لأتوسل في رعب شديد بغية النجاة
ولكن لأتعلل بالصبر حتى أظفر بحرّيتي
هيّء لي يا رب، ألا أكون جباناً
لا استشعر بنعمتك إلا حين أصيب النجاح
بل دعني أظفر بضمّة يدك،
في خذلاني”
― Rabindranath Tagore