I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Joseph Addison

It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.

Pierre Dukan

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Bill Hicks

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

Douglas Coupland

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Giovanni Ribisi

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I will be the one to leave you. David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

The Lover's Dictionary

My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

Jeffrey Kluger

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Christopher Lasch

The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

M.J. Stoddard