In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love character weakness good desire medicine doctor well-wishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The . . . patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. —Quentin Regestein More about this quote Tags: life body medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who ever said that doctors are truthful or even intelligent? You're getting a lot if they know their profession. Don't ask any more from them. They're only human, after all. —Marjorie Karmel More about this quote Tags: truth intelligence medicine doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the "Professional Building." I felt better right away. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without. —Puritan saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. —Jon Kabat-Zinn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept — the realm of emotion and conscience; of memory and intention and sensation. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: strength wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Santayana inherited his simple and unostentatious habits from his father. Once he asked the senior Santayana why he always traveled third class. "Because there's no fourth class," his father said. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty. I was almost disappointed yesterday to find thirty dollars in my desk which I did not know that I possessed, though now I should be sorry to lose it. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the moneymaking street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul. —William James More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. —Mary Mapes Dodge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here is a man whose desires are few. In some things he will not be able to maintain his resolution, but they will be few. Here is a man whose desires are many. In some things he will be able to maintain his resolution, but they will be few. —Mencius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email