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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
madness realized
I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out. John Glover
madness sanity
Worse than madness. Sanity. William Golding
madness inconvenience passerby
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. Joe Orton
madness
It takes madness to find out madness. Lady Gregory
madness impossibility
To expect an impossibility is madness. Marcus Aurelius
madness persuasion threat
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. Joseph Conrad
madness accomplished clear
He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone. Paul Theroux
madness quills
You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you? Kate Winslet
madness steppenwolf higher
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom Hermann Hesse
misanthrope benevolent
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent. Alfred Nobel
misanthrope
I have stopped being a misanthrope. Irving Layton