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self world monsters
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons. Anais Nin
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self people transformation
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. Susan Sontag
self might pay
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business. Roger Rosenblatt
self true-self creator
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. Thomas Merton
self problem existence
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him. Thomas Merton
self needs firsts
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost. Thomas Merton
self order identity
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity. Thomas Merton
self disease contemplation
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Thomas Carlyle
giving
We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it. Donald Trump
giving long enemy
The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle. Ann Coulter
giving people vision
Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.' Anna Deavere Smith
giving advice essentials
Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good. Andrew Thomas
giving trying world
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way. Andrew Solomon
giving needs ive-learned
Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need. Andrew Solomon
giving hatred energy
Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off ... Claire Danes
giving people affection
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. Daniel Keyes
giving priorities brain
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. Daniel Kahneman
return catharsis purpose
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves. Desmond Tutu