The pain-relieving ingredient — there's always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than extra-strength. "Give me the maximum allowable human dosage. Figure out what will kill me, and then back it off a little bit. —Jerry Seinfeld More about this quote Tags: pain death drugs aspirin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. —Chinese proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A Short History of Medicine2000 BC: "Here, eat this root."1000 BC: "That root is heathen, say this prayer."1850 AD: "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."1940 AD: "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."1985 AD: "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."2000 AD: "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root. —Author unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. —Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not walk into the Kingdom of Heaven one by one. —Mary Parker Follett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress. —Jean Vanier More about this quote Tags: strength helping community welcome distress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without community, there is no liberation . . . but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race. —Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. —Shelby Foote More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. —Christopher Hitchens More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We will go out into the world and plant gardens and orchards to the horizons, we will build roads through the mountains and across the deserts, and terrace the mountains and irrigate the deserts until there will be gardens everywhere, and plenty for all, and there will be no more empires or kingdoms . . . no more rich and no more poor, no killing or maiming or torture or execution, no more jailers and no more prisoners, no more generals, soldiers, armies or navies, no more patriarchy, no more caste, no more hunger, no more suffering than what life brings us for being born and having to die, and then we will see for the first time what kind of creatures we really are. —Kim Stanley Robinson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My sense of the holy . . . is bound up with the hope that someday, any millenium now, my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. —Richard Rorty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's tempting to ask why, if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after. —Rebecca Solnit More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email