“ There are three answers to prayer: yes, no, and wait a while. It must be recognized that no is an answer. Ruth Stafford Peale Writer
“ Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own. Ruth Stafford Peale Writer
“ Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive. Ruth Stafford Peale Writer
“ Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. Sir Fulke Greville Baron Willoughby De Broke
“ If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong? Daniel Dennett Philosopher
“ The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself. Allen Ginsberg Poet
“ I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion. Anita Hill Attorney
“ In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause. Anthony De Mello Writer