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“Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.”
― Celebrating Silence
― Celebrating Silence
“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”
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“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. ”
― The Essential Alan Watts
― The Essential Alan Watts
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
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“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.”
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Kumari’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Kumari’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,208 books
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100 friends
152 books
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77 friends
160 books
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66 friends
36 books
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13 friends
4 books
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61 friends
3 books
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68 friends
0 books
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125 friends
50 books
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187 friends
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