Quotable Wednesday: Week 1

I'm starting a series called Quotable Wednesdays.  I don't know if I'll run it every Wednesday, but I'm going to try.  I want to include quotes that have to do with stuff I've been writing about, stuff I've been reading about, and what other bloggers are saying.  The following are from Brainy Quotes.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
-Michael Landon

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
-Samuel Butler

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. 
-Jessica Lange

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. 
-Larry Wilcox

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. 
-Paul Farmer 

Side note: I heard Dr. Farmer speak when I was a freshman in college.  He spoke to my class about his work in the HIV field.  He's a gifted doctor who is doing some great good around the world and defiantly worth learning about.  He's also my birthday buddy :-)