{"quotes":[{"text":"There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if ‘productivity’ and/or ‘usefulness’ are the measures of human value, and — particularly for artists — this is deeply problematic. We shouldn’t given in.","author":"Tasha Golden","tags":["creative-life","quality-of-life","writing-life"],"id":22992,"author_id":"Tasha+Golden"},{"text":"We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, and grant their country most-favored-nation status (political contributions notwithstanding), we are deciding to make American workers who must earn the minimum wage compete with them. I am not suggesting that we close the doors to China or to Mexico, but I am suggesting that we look very carefully at the web of international relationships that we are creating. At the very minimum, we should understand that we have two choices in our country: we can raise world living standards by exporting those standards, or we can lower living standards- not only the world’s but also our own- by deciding that it is acceptable for the products of exploited labor to enter this country.","author":"Julianne Malveaux","tags":["international-relations","poverty","quality-of-life","work"],"id":24153,"author_id":"Julianne+Malveaux"},{"text":"It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.","author":"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi","tags":["happiness","quality-of-life"],"id":27524,"author_id":"Mihaly+Csikszentmihalyi"},{"text":"Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.","author":"William Crawford Gorgas","tags":["cooperation","disease-control","general-leonard-wood","heroes","leadership","leonard-wood","malaria-eradication","medical-discoveries","medical-history","mosquitoes","public-health","quality-of-life","supporting-others","teamwork","u-s-army","vector-control","vision","yellow-fever","yellow-fever-eradication"],"id":37843,"author_id":"William+Crawford+Gorgas"},{"text":"Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.","author":"Bob Anderson","tags":["creation","difference","leadership","leadership-development","quality-of-life","results"],"id":82306,"author_id":"Bob+Anderson"},{"text":"If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch that quirky aura and that special quality of life that feeds our soul-searching frame of mind and that builds a coveted haven, giving recognition and self-reliance. ('The unbearable heaviness of being”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["aura","being","build","catch","covet","fail","feed","frame-of-mind","haven","heaviness","in-a-rush","out-of-step","people","quality-of-life","quirky","recognition","rush","self-reliance","soul-searching","special","unbearable","world"],"id":116041,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The quality of life depends on the power of love.","author":"Debasish Mridha M.D.","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","philosophy","power-of-love","quality-of-life","quotes"],"id":117482,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha+M.D."},{"text":"The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors--how we exercise, what we eat--is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.","author":"Michael Stein","tags":["behavior-change","medicine","quality-of-life"],"id":121705,"author_id":"Michael+Stein"},{"text":"Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.","author":"Christina Scalise","tags":["clutter","life","money","organization","organize","perfection","quality-of-life","stress","time"],"id":125036,"author_id":"Christina+Scalise"},{"text":"Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bible","christian","christianity","death","die","eliminate","existence","free","freed","freedom","god","invest","killing","liberate","liberation","life","live","priorities","protest","quality-of-life","remove","sustain","values"],"id":151582,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}