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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

“Iniquum est collapsis manum non porrigere: commune hoc ius generis humani est"
(It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to the fallen: that is a common law of the human race)”
― Seneca the Elder

“ . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the pitiless war goes on, without quarter or armistice - a nationalism of species against species.”
― Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues