THESE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH MEDICINE, FOR THE MOST PART, BUT NEITHER DOES LIFE, FOR THE MOST PART
ROMANS: Seneca & Plato
“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.: – Seneca
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca
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CHINESE: Lao Tzu & Confucius
“Two-thirds of what we see is behind our eyes.” – Chinese proverb
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.” – Confucius
“He who travels softly goes far” – Chinese proverb
“Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
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ALIENS: The Little Prince & Yoda
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” – The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
“The beauty of the desert is that somewhere it hides a well.” – The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
“I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” – The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
“The greatest teacher failure is.” – Yoda
“Named must be your fear before banish it you can.” – Yoda
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda
“Do or do not – there is no try.” – Yoda
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“Don’t criticize others: they are likely just doing what you would do under similar circumstances.” – Dale Carnegie
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“Men must be taught as if taught not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.” – Alexander Pope
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“Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.” – Goethe
“Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but action.” – Goethe
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“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give” – Winston Churchill
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DOCTORS:
“Binary thinking destroys every opportunity for wisdom.” – Mark Mosley, MD
“It is not the patient’s job to prove they are sick. It is our job to prove they are not.” – Yaron Ivan, MD
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OTHERS:
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. And the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Ward
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“Don’t wait for the storm to pass. Instead go out and dance in the rain” – ??
The Golden Rule is flawed! Why? Because others don’t always desire what you desire. The Platinum Rule is better and states thus: “Do unto others as they desire” To do this you have to first find out what it is they desire, either by getting to know them, detective work, or just asking. Try it!
“Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.” – C. S. Lewis
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Jonathan Swift
“Our self-definitions are not constructed in our heads; they are forged by our deeds.” – Robert McAfee Brown
“A first-rate theory predicts… a third-rate theory explains after the event.” A. Kitaigorodskii
“Causality if found where our attention is drawn” – Explanation for the fundamental attribution error, – David G Myers
“I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.” – Sara Teasdale
“We are entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don’t. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan