Women agonize… over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend’s breast. – Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. – John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of Jo

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. – Emmanuel

It isn’t our position but our disposition which makes us happy. – Author Unknown