“ Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune sy… Bruce Beutler
“ If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. Ann Oakley
“ Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer
“ The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them. George Bernard Shaw
“ To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson
“ To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self. Eric Hoffer
“ We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault becau… Katharine Hepburn
“ People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make th… George Bernard Shaw
“ I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you… Harriet Beecher Stowe
“ Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone. Agnes Macphail
“ I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love. Raquel Welch
“ Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking f… Alice Koller
“ Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be. Golda Meir
“ He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. Samuel Johnson
“ There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise. Christine Downing
