Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of...

"Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds."

Thomas M. Kostigen

Kommentare 0

Noch keine Kommentare

Sei der Erste, der seine Gedanken teilt!

Bitte logge dich ein, um mitzudiskutieren.

Das könnte dir auch gefallen

"The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

Unknown

Inspiration

Time cannot be changed, but time can change you. -YakupAdar.

-YakupAdar

"The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed."

Ilse Aichinger

"Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it."

Anonymous

"If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him."

Dorothy Simpson

Inspiration

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

"Hope is a journeyInto an enchanted tomorrow."

Karen Hackel

Inspiration

At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life.

Cayla Kluver

"It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.' p 380."

Abraham Verghese

"Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy."

Aeriel Miranda

Inspiration

The germ of creation lies in violence.

Rudolfo Anaya

Inspiration

Wives?' she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, 'None active,' as if wives were volcanoes.

John le Carré

"This very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way."

Jerome A. Miller

"Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older."

Audrey Niffenegger

"What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself."

Paul Theroux