“If you can look back at your entire life and at the end of the day and say, ‘You know? My life was good. I’m pleased with how it all turned out . . . and if I could do it all over… — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
“As she explained to her students, patients often awoke from very bad illnesses or cardiac arrests, talking about how they had been floating over their bodies. “Mm-hmmm,” Norma would reply, sometimes thinking, Yeah, yeah, I know, you were on the ceiling. Such stories were recounted so frequently that they hardly jolted medical personnel. Norma at the time had mostly chalked… — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share
“Mohandas Gandhi read: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
“ADULTHOOD, NORMA BELIEVED, is about giving back and passing lessons on to the next generation, so that the virtues you work so hard to… — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
“Norma would witness many more deaths of all varieties, but she never forgot that first one, its serenity, its peacefulness.” — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
“So Norma’s message was that happiness takes hard work. It should be approached like a series of homework assignments.” — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
“If you can look back at your entire life and at the end of the day and say, ‘You know? My life was good.… — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
