You’re supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age. (Victoria Moran)
The ultimate act of heroism shouldn’t be death
The ultimate act of heroism shouldn’t be death (Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl)
Springtime blooms the starry treeBearing fruit the mariners see.High by night and low by dawnThe silver apple guides us home
Springtime blooms the starry treeBearing fruit the mariners see.High by night and low by dawnThe silver apple guides us home. (F.T. McKinstry, The Gray Isles)
All involve risk, uncertainty, and complexity — and therefore steps that are worth committing to a checklist and testing in routine care. Good checklists could become as important as doctors and nurses as good stethoscopes (which, unlike checklist, have never been proved to make a difference in patient care). The hard question — still unanswered — is whether medical culture can seize the opportunity
All involve risk, uncertainty, and complexity — and therefore steps that are worth committing to a checklist and testing in routine care. Good checklists could become as important as doctors and nurses as good stethoscopes (which, unlike checklist, have never been proved to make a difference in patient care). The hard question — still unanswered — is whether medical culture can seize the opportunity (Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right)
To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment
To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment (Katherine A. Briccetti)
The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check
The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check (John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter)
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position (Marcel Duchamp)
Consistent, Timely encouragement has the staggering magnetic power to draw an immortal soul to the God of Hope. The one whose name is Wonderful Counselor
Consistent, Timely encouragement has the staggering magnetic power to draw an immortal soul to the God of Hope. The one whose name is Wonderful Counselor (Charles R. Swindoll)
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny (Jimmy Carter)
If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one’s spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life
If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one’s spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life (Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder)