Roseleaf Sage Quotes & Sayings

Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi

If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home. — Ned Beauman

Medicine and society have entered into a folie a deaux regarding medicine's importance in gigantic population ills. We believe that genetics and pills and enzymes bring us health. We wait for the dementia cure (the obesity cure, the diabetes cure) rather than changing our society to decrease incidence and severity. We slash social welfare programs and access to GPs and ignore the downstream effect this will have on future generations.
To reduce non-communicable disease, the actions we need to take are societal: make it easier for people to move and eat well, strengthen education, promote community participation and meaningful work. Our collective delusion is that we can have all the benefits such a society would bring without the structural supports necessary to bring it into being, that we can attain health by inventing and buying drugs.
It is hard to know which is the more utopian vision: magic pills or a society serious about prevention. — Karen Hitchcock

Every new morning brings new sunshine, new joy and new hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee. — George Nethercutt

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it. — Blake Shelton

Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been seriously undermined. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world. — Romain Rolland

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. — John Banville