-- Aesop, (c.620-c. 560 B.C.)

-- Lucan

I think I've reached that point... Or maybe it's just the early onset of Alzheimer's...

-- Kate Chopin, in The Awakening

-- Douglas Adams

-- Helen Keller

-- Isaac Asimov

-- First lines of the last story in Being Dead by Vivian Vande Velde

--William Shakespeare

-- Stanley Sanders ... who had lost a lot of weight as the result of having a part of a brain tumor that survived the operation and had limited his life expectancy to less than eight months... He still kept his sense of humor, amazingly enough, and his marvelous outlook on life.

If I decide with my mind,
I am influenced by all kinds of thoughts that fight against one another.

If I try to decide with my eyes,
even though I see with love,
it is hard not to be influenced by what I actually see...
how people look,
react,
and what they are doing.

If I decide with my heart,
my judgments are never harsh.
My heart takes into account the things that have hurt people...
what they have had to deal with just to stay sane and alive.
My heart thinks about fairness,
comfort,
and hope.

-- Fools Crow

-- Napoleon Hill

-- Darrell Royal, Texas football coach

-- Ovid

-- Ruth McKenney

-- Helen Keller

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

So teasing!
So pleasing!
Capricious!
Delicious!

-- Washington Irving

-- Lucan

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--Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist, in Cool Memories</i>

--Leonard Cohen (b. 1934), Canadian singer, poet, novelist. International Herald Tribune, (Paris, Nov. 4, 1988).

--Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms

--Judith Guest (b. 1936), U.S. author. The psychiatrist Berger to Conrad Jarrett, in Ordinary People

-- Lesley Hazelton in The Right to Feel Bad

--Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. letter, Sept. 13, 1929, to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker (1981).


Biographer and critic Leon Edel observed, in a 1988 interview, “The greatest enemy of writers is depression, which they can't avoid.”

--Dr. Rollo May in Paulus

-- Kate Millett (b. 1934), U.S. feminist theorist, literary critic, essayist, autobiographer, sculptor. The Loony-Bin Trip

-- Dr. R. W. Shepherd in Vogue, Jul 78

--Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

--Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970), U.S. journalist, in Out of These Roots

Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits -- and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Quatrain XCIX, Fifth Edition (as rendered from the Persian by Edward FitzGerald)

See the complete versions at:

http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/khayyamo/rubaiyat2.htm

-- Randolph Bourne

-- Cher

-- William Jennings Bryan

-- Emiliano Zapata

-- David Starr Jordan

-- Roman Bishop Hippolytus

-- Abraham Lincoln

-- Mike Ditka

-- Mark Twain

-- Tallulah Bankhead

-- Anonymous

-- Spurgeon

-- John Ruskin

-- Sir Douglas Bader, a British fighter pilot who lost both legs in a flying accident, but still fought in World War II. He was knighted for his work with the disabled, and the quote above is from his talk to a 14-year-old boy who had lost a leg in a car accident.

-- Francis Bacon

--Bernhard Haisch

-- Isaac Newton

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

-- Mahatma Gandhi

-- Mahatma Ghandi

-- Robert Browning

-- Roger Carras

-- Alexander Pope

-- Arthur C. Clarke (b.1917) British science fiction writer

-- Hans Eric Hellberg, Swedish author :-)</i>

Contributed by leeneh... with such better flow! I have to un-bury it so I can spot it when I'm looking for it.

-- Tyron Edwards

-- Washington Gladden

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- William Feather

-- Helen Keller

-- Paul E. Galanti, former Vietnam prisoner-of-war

-- Pam Brown

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

-- Anonymous