"People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping."

“I want to feel my life while I'm in it.”

“She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

“Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.”

“Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.”

Source : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1976). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

“Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.”

“Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.”

“Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.”

“Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly.”