Tampa Bay Book Display: Welcome

“We spend too much time trying to be “good” when good is often merely average. To be great we must be different. And that doesn’t come from trying to follow society’s vision of what is best, because society doesn’t always know what it needs. More often being the best means just being the best version of you.”

“If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost always join you in dialogue.”

“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels”

“When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment, you create trust.”

“What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.”

“Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.”

“These tick bites would rob us of our good health and send me on an investigation into an almost unimaginable possibility: that we were collateral damage in a biological weapons race that had started during the Cold War.” 

“They acted in the dark, and in the process they took steps that were sometimes extreme, often wasted resources, and were frequently counterproductive. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, the path that they followed led to a first major victory in the war against epidemic disease.”

“One simple reason for malaria’s ferocity is that the protozoan creature that cause the disease is, by definition, a cheater at the game of life.”

“Yet something has been lost in the record as well, something more intimate and experiential than stories of pudding and malt liquor — namely, what it felt like to contact cholera in that teeming, fraught city, at a time when so little was understood about the disease.”

“When a virus is trying, so to speak, to crash into the human species, the warning sign may be a spattering of breaks at different times and places.”

“This points to another pair of themes: the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics and pandemics. All of the diseases discussed in this book, while able to be controlled (to varying degrees) by modern medicine, are all affected by social conditions.”