| "Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." »H. G. Wells |
| "Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." »Henry Miller |
| "One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." »Charles Horton Cooley |
| "You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this Look. Listen. Choose. Act." »Barbara Hall |
| "What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too." »Norman Cousins |
| "Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." »Mark Twain |
| "There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams |
| "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." »Margot Fonteyn |
| "Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." »Lavina Goodell |
| "It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider |
| "The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up." »Charles Langbridge Morgan |
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