"Become very conscious of every choice you make today so you can begin to make smarter choices moving forward."

“Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.”

“I'm a normal sized girl. I'm not a size double zero; I don't weigh 90 pounds. I'm a healthy girl.”

“Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (1838). “Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a Slave”, p.55, Applewood Books

“Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.”

“Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.”

“There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.”

Source : Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

“Laughing and crying are very similar. Sometimes people go from laughing to crying, or crying to laughing. I remember being at someone's wedding and she couldn't stop laughing, through the whole ceremony. If she'd been crying, it would have seemed more "normal," though.”

Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.