"As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body."

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Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

Lewis Thomas

#Health Quotes #People Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.”
“Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I donâ€™t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which Iâ€™m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I havenâ€™t existed and wonâ€™t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!”
“Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.”
“Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
“Actually, I'm not super-kickass at a lot of things.”
“Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all...”
“New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'”
“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.”

Source : "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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