Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy.
We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.
We are guests in our patients' lives.
Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.
. . . catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves. . . I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
Beautiful, luscious and flowing. Atop the governor's head.
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again. . . Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home. . . But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time.