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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 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
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner
definitions monsters demand
The monstrous act by definition demands a monster. Rick Yancey
definitions language form
Language is a form of organized stutter. Marshall McLuhan
definitions life-happens victim
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens. Peter McWilliams
definitions video used
I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap. Quentin Tarantino
definitions doe fit
Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it? Lilith Saintcrow
definitions mythology one-sentence
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. Joseph Campbell
definitions want kind
My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend. Maria Shriver
definitions corporations slides
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. Karen Joy Fowler
definitions eat-pray-and-love rational
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. Elizabeth Gilbert
different use want
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. Richard P. Feynman
different
Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently. Richelle Mead
different reason feels
The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life. Rose McIver
different kind realizing
I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was. Troye Sivan
different schedules chaotic
There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic. Wallace Shawn
different surprising
I like to do things that are surprising and different. Rudy Rucker
different hours stills
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all. W. G. Sebald
different world doe
I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does. Wayne Dyer
different performances
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. Van Morrison