These thoughts and tips from the past 200 years will help you to refuel your optimism and renew your outlook on the future if you are going through a tough day or month or you are having trouble with staying on your path until you reach your goal or dream. A neurosurgeon with a passion for literature tragically finds his perfect subject after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

Then I think that today's post filled with the most powerful better days ahead quotes will be useful. Pause and remember nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith.” And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. “We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

My Book Notes

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” This was a great book: extremely well researched, honest and informative. I enjoyed it until the last chapter where I feel the time period of 1970-2000 really did not receive the same extensive research as the previous time periods.

This book really reminded me of the forgotten struggle that our forefathers & mothers had 2 endure just 2 get the rights that most of us take for granted 2day;... Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.” Kerr explained his refusal, for two years, to obey the segregation law: “As an individual, I am entitled to the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways – as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Writing isn’t brain surgery, but it’s rare when someone adept at the latter is also so accomplished at the former. Searching for meaning and purpose in his life, Kalanithi pursued a doctorate in literature and had felt certain that he wouldn’t enter the field of medicine, in which his father and other members of his family excelled. “But I couldn’t let go of the question,” he writes, after realizing that his goals “didn’t quite fit in an English department.” “Where did biology, morality, literature and philosophy intersect?” So he decided to set aside his doctoral dissertation and belatedly prepare for medical school, which “would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.” The author’s empathy undoubtedly made him an exceptional doctor, and the precision of his prose—as well as the moral purpose underscoring it—suggests that he could have written a good book on any subject he chose. Part of what makes this book so essential is the fact that it was written under a death sentence following the diagnosis that upended his life, just as he was preparing to end his residency and attract offers at the top of his profession. Kalanithi learned he might have 10 years to live or perhaps five. Should he return to neurosurgery (he could and did), or should he write (he also did)? Should he and his wife have a baby? They did, eight months before he died, which was less than two years after the original diagnosis. “The fact of death is unsettling,” he understates. “Yet there is no other way to live.”Simply one of the most important books a knowledge soaked individual could ever hope 2 read, cause if knowledge is power then this a book for KINGS & QUEENS;.... We all have negative days, but that doesn’t mean we are pessimistic. We all do stupid things, but that doesn’t mean we are stupid. It’s important to be able to distinguish between what happens to us and who we are, and look forward with hope for new and better days ahead!” Have faith in tomorrow, for it can bring better days. Never wish for yesterday, for it has gone its separate ways. Believe in today, for it’s what you’re living now.”