“Life lessons are well-learned through trails.”
“Life gives us many test. We must graciously take each test!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“...to remind myself that a person can die while they're still alive, simply by not choosing to live." It's taken me a long time to understand what she'd meant by that. Worry can be pernicious. Left unchecked, it slowly bleeds the soul of joy and replaces it with fear.”
Source: Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate
“You kiss me on the street
And for once I don’t care,
If the people around are talking
Or if they stand and stare.”
Source: The Shit You Call Love
“Evolution forged the entirety of life using only one tool: the mistake...”
Source: The Old Drift
“Will water become the new gold of the coming age?
Will man lust after the precious commodity in an ever aggressive manner?
Will nature meet man head on and show him who is boss?”
“Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.”
Source: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless patch of green known as "No Man's Land." Here 1,500 unidentified bodies are buried. At one time, their skin burned with yellow fever; now they lie in a cool, dark place where long ago their arms and legs, hands and feet, were intertwined for eternity.”
Source: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
“There is no such things as a 'harmless' racial preference. Sexual racism is a living, breathing creature amidst our society today.”
Source: Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization
“To fetishize, reject, and emasculate individuals based on their race is to objectify and dehumanise them, transforming them into nothing but objects meant to appease the desires of the user.”
Source: Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization