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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
aging genetic studies
The only thing that retards aging is calorie restriction. As genetic studies go forward, we'll find out why. Roy Walford
aging
I like life. It's something to do.
aging instinct dies
Systems die; instincts remain. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
aging ifs
If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that. Epictetus
aging chance decline delay eating effects function happy healthy human improve increase living nutrition optimal paper primary report
Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life. This is the first paper to show that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that ameliorate the age-associated decline in diastolic function in humans. In other words, this is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.
aging employers population tight
The aging of the population may put employers in a tight situation.
aging feels expected
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. Elizabeth Janeway
aging knows ifs
If I were younger, I'd know more. James M. Barrie
aging leaders leaders-and-leadership process soon start
The leaders are aging ... that's why we have to start the process as soon as possible.
immortality claims contribution
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality. Walter Gropius
immortal
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free. John Ashbery
immortality felt
But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse. Henry Vaughan
immortality conscious eternal-life
I am conscious of eternal life. Theodore Parker
immortal make-sense
How much longer will I live? (Urian) You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn’t make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon
immortality
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. Gregory Maguire