T K Naliaka Quotes

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food. ~ T.K. Naliaka

If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it? ~ T.K. Naliaka

If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton's advice: "A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week." In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency. ~ T.K. Naliaka

How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. ~ T.K. Naliaka

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth. ~ T.K. Naliaka

What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you. ~ T.K. Naliaka

If literacy was natural, the word 'illiteracy' would not exist. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language? ~ T.K. Naliaka

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing. ~ T.K. Naliaka

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is. ~ T.K. Naliaka

They won't turn away a father who has come to find his son. ~ T.K. Naliaka

The strength of human instinct seems to be quite overrated as it is so feeble it requires a lifetime of guidance, education, training and practical experience to develop. More critically, without conscious and diligent effort across one generation to pass its knowledge on to the next generation, all that was gained will be lost, forewarned by an increasing rarity of the reminiscence, "Every secret of life I know, I learned at my grandfather's knee. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this? ~ T.K. Naliaka

To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around them, in their traditional robes and the resting camels by their campfire, intently regarding writing with such immense respect … that illiteracy meant subsistence, while literacy meant human advancement, the base on which higher achievements and accomplishments of great civilizations could be built. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases? ~ T.K. Naliaka

Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Somehow your heart still knows me. ~ T.K. Naliaka

A tiny home with love was better than a world without it. ~ T.K. Kiser

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later. ~ T. K. V. Desikachar

Everyone has an opinion of some sort. When you yield to someone's opinion, you actually give them a type of subliminal power over you. They have the ability to string your emotions along because of their approval or disapproval. God's opinion is the only one that should matter but that is not always the case. Many people are influenced by peers, in one way or another.

21 Day Journey of Inspiration ~ T.K. Ware

Her nerves stood on end and she knew she was on the brink of falling over the edge with Alexander. And the thought didn't scare her at that moment. Because she knew he was the type of person to catch her, no matter what. ~ T.K. Leigh

In some cases, the desires of your flesh are stronger than your spirit, and you revisit the temptation that you once repented of. Instead of asking only for forgiveness, you must also ask for the strength to withstand the temptation. There is strength available for any situation we are going through. All you have to do is simply ask from a sincere heart. God knows if you are serious and He knows when you are simply babbling ~ T.K. Ware

Atheists are spiritual slackers, right? We are the stoners of the cosmos. We think we're all over-intelligent, free-thinking, free-spirited, uber-cool, hippy-dippy, science-minded, leaning-to-the-left, hedonistic, children of Theodorus the Atheist. We're all like "Dude, I don't need no stinkin' deity" and if we came face-to-face with the Grim Reaper himself we'd say, "No worries, Bro, let's do this! Game over! ~ T. K. Decker

What more can you give them before bravery turns to foolishness and luck turns cold? Who can outrun the horizon? ~ J.T.K Belle

Inner-freedom is less about feeling good and more about learning to develop a healthy and harmonious relationship with the variety of emotional states you're likely to occupy over the course of a lifetime. ~ T.K. Coleman

God trades our ashes for beauty, and our pain for joy. ~ T.K. Chapin

A rainy day is a good day to be in bed with a good book - or with someone who has read one."
T.K. Lukas ~ T.K. Lukas

Triple T, K A.... time to totally kick ass. ~ Marlon Wayans

Magic isn't a far-off phenomenon. ~ T.K. Kiser

A rainy day's a good day to be in bed with a good book or with someone whose read one. ~ T.K. Lukas

We must recognize that our frustrations are largely due to the fact that we have not learned how to "dance" to a large part of the emotional spectrum. Being emotionally versatile is like being a good dancer. Just as dancers must challenge themselves to master new moves with their bodies, we must challenge ourselves to learn new forms of psychological choreography. ~ T.K. Coleman

The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling. ~ T.K. Coleman

However beautifully we carry out an asana, however flexible our body may be, if we do not achieve the integration of body, breath, and mind we cannot claim that what we are doing is yoga. ~ T. K. V. Desikachar

The Just Therapy Team's discussions involved an outline of how othered marginalized groups desired a genuine alternative therapeutic dialogue. Marginalized groups (e.g., women, people of color, persons living in poverty, and persons struggling with mental health issues, disabilities) no longer wanted to be dictated to or told who they actually were as persons, as defined by the dominant class of Western psychological thinking (T. K. Tamasese and C. Waldegrave, personal communication, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2008). ~ Stephen Madigan

By the time I'm through sweeping you off your feet, you will be bursting at the seams, begging me to fuck you, never wanting another man inside you again. ~ T.K. Leigh

Happiness is like a genre of music that nearly everyone knows how to dance to. Happiness has a very simple tempo, catchy phrasing, and memorable lyrics. It's the song at the wedding that makes everyone excited to run to the dance floor. ~ T.K. Coleman

Some of the greatest difficulties aren't the decisions we make, but the results of them. ~ T.K. Chapin

My eyes open and close. I catch a quick glimpse of the people in the room and hear a fading echo from the heart monitor. As I think about my past, remorse bleed into the crevices of my torn heart. Since I'm in this hospital, I might as well prepare for my departure. I like the way that word sounds, it gives off the illusion of a specific journey that an individual is about to take. ~ T.K. Ware

I can't promise you I won't ever screw up, but I can promise you that every single day I wake up, I will love you more then the day before. ~ T.K. Chapin

Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way. ~ T.K. Coleman

Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth - it's the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of. ~ T.K. Coleman

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. ~ T. K. V. Desikachar

Mercy.
Do any of the gods care about such things or only that their contracts and agreements are fulfilled? ~ T.K. Thorne

I took care of that evil man. I sewed a curse into his pocket. Sewed it tight. First five stitches take away his health, happiness, love, money an family. Six be the number of Evil. Sixth black stitch make it final. Satan his self gonna steal his breath and escort him to hell. ~ T.K. Lukas

Expressed in Planck units, the temperature T of a black hole is inversely proportional to its mass, m. This is a third law, Hawking's law: T = k/m. The constant k is very small in normal units. As a result, astrophysical black holes have temperatures of a very small fractionnof a degree. ~ Lee Smolin

I can't survive without you, Olivia. You're my heart, and I'll die without you. ~ T.K. Leigh

I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this! ~ T.K. Chapin

It made her forget everything, even if for just a minute. ~ T.K. Leigh

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga. ~ T. K. V. Desikachar

The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered. ~ T.K. Kiser

If you are blessed with great fortunes ... you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes. As soon as you realize your helplessness at the mercy of your fate, you are again in despair. Thus the hatred of fate can be generated not only by misfortunes, but also by great fortunes. Your hatred of fate is at the same time your hatred of your self. You hate your self for being so helpless under the crushing power of fate. ~ T. K. Seung

Because no matter what happens, you are going to get hurt in life. But it's so much better to have jumped into the ocean and gotten stung by a jellyfish than to never have felt the salt water between your toes at all. ~ T.K. Leigh

If you focus on the world's deficiencies and stop there, then you'll probably feel horrible and paralyzed. But why stop there? It's intellectually dishonest to focus on what's wrong with the world without acknowledging our rich history of overcoming incredible odds. ~ T.K. Coleman

This life we have is a process of becoming holy. Though Christ is the redeemer, it's up to us to have a relationship with God. Without a relationship, we'll always be lacking and trying to find fulfillment in this world, and we know what the world offers can never satisfy our need. ~ T.K. Chapin

Tell me you like it, Olivia. Say the words. Tell me I'm the only one who can set your body on fire like this. ~ T.K. Leigh

Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence. ~ T.K. Coleman

When in doubt, go back to sleep. ~ T.K. Toppin

I should've prayed that day. Maybe, just maybe, a few hours ago would've been different. Who am I kidding; everything led up to that moment. This is the first time I have been in the hospital. I am speechless. The cool sheets rest upon my lifeless body. The cold silence within the room carries the beeps echoing from the heart monitor. ~ T.K. Ware