Interesting quotes. Most of us don't have such an intense body awareness, maybe it would be beneficial if we had?

Stendhal Quotes French - Writer January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842 Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. Stendhal The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Stendhal True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. Stendhal Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. Stendhal Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. Stendhal All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. Stendhal I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. Stendhal She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? Stendhal

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes French - Novelist January 28, 1873 - August 3, 1954 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/sidonie_gabrielle_colette Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Be happy. It's one way of being wise. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes English - Clergyman January 28, 1834 - January 2, 1924 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/sabine_baringgould Henry Morton Stanley Quotes Welsh - Explorer January 28, 1841 - May 10, 1904 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/henry_morton_stanley Jose Marti Quotes Cuban - Activist January 28, 1853 - May 19, 1895 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jose_marti Ismail Kadare Quotes Albanian - Novelist Born: January 28, 1936 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/ismail_kadare Alan Alda Quotes American - Actor Born: January 28, 1936 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/alan_alda Ken Hill Quotes British - Playwright January 28, 1937 - January 23, 1995 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/ken_hill

So many people sharing their wisdom & so many fools have too much influence, will that ever change? FDR was much maligned & accomplished so much.