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self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self grace denial
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. Richard Baxter
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
self long age
Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now. Russell Hoban
self ideas people
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Russell Brand
despair fair-play weary
Never flinch, never weary, never despair. Winston Churchill
despair cost easy
Despair is easy, or at least low cost. Rebecca Solnit
despair middle-east do-the-best
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. P. J. O'Rourke
despair aviation get-up
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. Avi Arad
despair noble conquer
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. Pierre Corneille
despair action oneself
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair. Kate Morton
despair energy latter
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. John Keats
despair able would-be
Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. Lisa Kleypas
despair would-be ends
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it. Leo Tolstoy
morale
I think that you will see the morale lifted, Harry McDonald
morality needs question
He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him. Cillian Murphy
moral-high-ground iraq borders
We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair. Tucker Carlson
morality study social
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. Vincent Van Gogh
morally people sit
I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do, Matt Birk
moral consistent persistent
Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it. Harvey Mackay
moral economics disregard
That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values. Mahatma Gandhi
moral-beliefs facts would-be
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts. Friedrich August von Hayek
moral tradition reason
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.