"People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from."

-- Julian Simon

#Grateful Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Years Quotes

“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.”

Source : "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.
“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
“Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.”
“I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.”
“I'm addicted to writing.”

Source : Source: geosireads.wordpress.com
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.”

Source : "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.
“Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.”
“The frivolous work of polished idleness.”

Source : James Mackintosh (1872). “On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries”, p.232

You may also like:

Bjorn Lomborg
Writer
Bryan Caplan
Economist
Donella Meadows
Environmental Writer
Garrett Hardin
Ecologist
Herman Kahn
Strategist
Norman Myers
Environmentalist
Paul R. Ehrlich
Population Biologist
Thomas Malthus
Scholar
David D. Friedman
Economist