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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
stranger
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. Truman Capote
stranger wanted own-business
I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going. Sara Blakely
stranger
Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. Ursula K. Le Guin
stranger moments
It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself. Kenneth Oppel
stranger learning-to-love
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me June Jordan
stranger contemporary posterity
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] Madame de Stael
stranger truth-is
Truth is stranger than fishin. Jimmy Buffett
stranger sisyphus
For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself. Albert Camus
stranger walks
we walk the plank with strangers. Sylvia Plath
individual jacques team
Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful. Bobby Holik
individual personal reasons
It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.
individualism
I really like individualism based on truth. Tyler Blackburn
individuality groups mediocrity
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. Sarah Vowell
individuality individual
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature. Rudolf Steiner
individuality would-be wanted
I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained. Walt Disney
individuality conformity institutions
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. Walt Whitman
individual persons urges
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person. Zora Neale Hurston
individual-differences challenges unity
The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences. William P. Leahy