"Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding."

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Source : Wade Davis (2010). “The Serpent and the Rainbow”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Wade Davis

#Understanding Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Risk Quotes

“If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people.Â A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people, will never perish. I do not believe in death without resurrection.Â If they kill me, I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.”
“Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.”
“When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.”
“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”
“Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master, And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe, We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere, The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.”

Source : Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.50, Dundurn
“Weâ€™re all gifted with the opportunity to succeed. But you get further if you extend the hand of friendship.”
“Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.”

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