Got a message from a wise man — Anastacia

"Im not that deep, Im not that mysterious. Dont try to figure me out. Im a very open book. What you see is what you get."

"My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken."

"Im a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that."

"Im a singer who touches millions of people and my words and my knowledge of what Im learning from cancer can help millions. And if I can help millions, even if I help one person, thats one person more than none."

"I dont fear death. But I dont like being dangled out there like a piece of meat on a fishing rod to it either. If Im going to die, take me out now. Dont let me suffer. Thats not exactly the way I wanted to go. I dont want to be in limbo, I dont want to know that I might die. The mights dont work with me. Im too literal."

"I wear glasses because I need them; I dont wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and Im blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; Ive always worn crazy, goofy glasses, its just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."

"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"

"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."

"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"

"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."