Rodrigo Martins

“comerei beijos como quem come sopa, e palitarei as gengivas no fim para extrair dos molares restos incómodos de ternura”
― António Lobo Antunes, Memoria de elefante

“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Neurons can create time – they can destroy time – those neurons can create future, they can destroy future – those neurons can create a beautiful world, they can also create a horrible planet to live on – those neurons are both the pedestrians and the path of truth and liberty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph