Esmael Valdez Quotes & Sayings

Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only human ourselves. We are distractible, weak, and given to our own concerns. Yet still, to live as a doctor is to live so that one's life is bound up in others' and in science and in the messy, complicated connection between the two It is to live a life of responsibility. The question then, is not whether one accepts the responsibility. Just by doing this work, one has. The question is, having accepted the responsibility, how one does such work well. — Atul Gawande

We don't know if we're dancing on the show until a couple of days before the show starts, let alone who their partners are before they meet them. — Lindsay Arnold

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him. — John Climacus

However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy. — Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so. — Richard Dawkins

The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life. — Harold Feinstein

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut. — Florence Nightingale

I am not compatible with life. — Aniket More

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter. — Alain De Botton

Maybe you need to find something more active? How about a yoga class?"
"Yoga? Sweetheart, I've had no reason to put my legs around my neck since Bud passed on. — Victoria Vane