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A review by elissapoletti
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Below are just two of my favourite quotes (there are so
many more but you should read the book for yourself!)
"This is the most important thing I have ever learned: the greatest thing you will ever do is be loved by another person.
I cannot emphasise this enough, especially to young people. Without friendship, a human being is lost. A
friend is someone who reminds you to feel alive."
"I am still in awe of the human body and what it is capable of. I am a precision engineer, and I have spent
years making the most complicated, intricate machinery, but I could not make a machine like the human body. It is the best machine ever made. It turns
fuel into life, can repair itself, can do anything you need it to. That is why today it breaks my heart to see the
way some people treat their bodies, ruining this wonderful machine we are all gifted by smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, poisoning themselves with
drugs. They are demolishing the best machine ever put onto this Earth, and it is such a terrible waste.
Every day in Auschwitz, my body was pushed to its absolute limit, and then further. It was starved, beaten,
frozen, wounded. But it kept me going. It kept me alive. And now, it has kept me alive for more than one hundred years. What a marvellous piece of machinery!"
Eddie Jaku documents his enslavement in the
concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and the things
that gave him the hope to survive.
This is a truely incredible and moving story, a book that anyone can and should read. I love how simply and mater of factly Eddie tells his story, he is straight to the point and teaches so many important lessons.
What an amazing man.
many more but you should read the book for yourself!)
"This is the most important thing I have ever learned: the greatest thing you will ever do is be loved by another person.
I cannot emphasise this enough, especially to young people. Without friendship, a human being is lost. A
friend is someone who reminds you to feel alive."
"I am still in awe of the human body and what it is capable of. I am a precision engineer, and I have spent
years making the most complicated, intricate machinery, but I could not make a machine like the human body. It is the best machine ever made. It turns
fuel into life, can repair itself, can do anything you need it to. That is why today it breaks my heart to see the
way some people treat their bodies, ruining this wonderful machine we are all gifted by smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, poisoning themselves with
drugs. They are demolishing the best machine ever put onto this Earth, and it is such a terrible waste.
Every day in Auschwitz, my body was pushed to its absolute limit, and then further. It was starved, beaten,
frozen, wounded. But it kept me going. It kept me alive. And now, it has kept me alive for more than one hundred years. What a marvellous piece of machinery!"
Eddie Jaku documents his enslavement in the
concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and the things
that gave him the hope to survive.
This is a truely incredible and moving story, a book that anyone can and should read. I love how simply and mater of factly Eddie tells his story, he is straight to the point and teaches so many important lessons.
What an amazing man.