João Roxo

“The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion. But it is an illusion which is one of the strongest motives of my actions. Before I do anything I feel that I have choice, and that influences what I do; but afterwards, when the thing is done, I believe that it was inevitable from all eternity.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“As falhas na comunicação entre os profissionais de saúde e desses com pacientes e familiares têm sido apontadas na literatura científica sobre o tema da Segurança do Paciente como uma das causas mais importantes para a ocorrência de eventos adversos no cuidado de saúde.”
― Aline Albuquerque, Empatia nos cuidados em saúde: comunicação e ética na prática clínica

“It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“You want to do things, you want to become things," said Hayward, with a shrug of the shoulders. "It's so vulgar.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage