"To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely."

-- Rene Dubos

#Healing Quotes #People Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news.”
“We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less suffering, nd much of our suffering is with other people, then perhaps we need to reexamine our sole commitment to these individual practices... As our individual pracitce deepens, it may yiled true ease. But whether we practice meditation in seclusion or independently alongside other meditators at a meditation group or retreat, individual meditation approaches the confusion and pain of our relational lives only indirectly.”
“Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)
“One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.”
“I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.”
“Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain-that is, the fittest would survive.”
“Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.”
“The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.”

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