Neurosurgery And Spine Quotes & Sayings

I generally start each day with a cup of coffee or tea - sometimes two. This morning, it was coffee (two). Why not tea? I am in no position to know. I wanted coffee more than I wanted tea today, and I was free to have what I wanted. Did I consciously choose coffee over tea? No. The choice was made for me by events in my brain that I, as the conscious witness of my thoughts and actions, could not inspect or influence. Could I have "changed my mind" and switched to tea before the coffee drinker in me could get his bearings? Yes, but this impulse would also have been the product of unconscious causes. Why didn't it arise this morning? Why might it arise in the future? I cannot know. The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness - rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it. — Sam Harris

A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we open our hands and take that which is offered to us, we are not only receiving the thing offered, but we are receiving the person. — Emily P. Freeman

I do not think that I am a natural born mother ... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father. — Eleanor Roosevelt

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. — James Baldwin

If you pray, you can endure any pain. — Lailah Gifty Akita