It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

Kim Kardashian

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;-- but when a beginning is made-- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt-- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

Jane Austen

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

Vidal Sassoon

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.

Terry Pratchett

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Jeff Bridges

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

R. Turnbull

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

James Beattie