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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
shining celebrate existence
Celebrate your existence! William Blake
shining fantastic term
What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic! Whoopi Goldberg
shining firsts
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. Voltaire
shining resistance example
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. Salvatore Quasimodo
shining excellence quality
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. William Hazlitt
shining way mysterious
Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right. Lily Collins
shining faces consciousness
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
shining lines cadence
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. John Dryden
shining intellectual sun
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set. Charles Caleb Colton
conviction justify
he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror. Kofi Annan
conviction god good marriage
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it. Myles Munroe
conviction honestly insult lie
If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence. Toba Beta
conviction firm gift liberties minds nation people secure violated
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Thomas Jefferson
conviction leftists persons
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been. Jose Saramago
conviction moving passed sentence trial
They are moving to a speedy conviction ... they have already passed a sentence even before the trial has ended.
conviction
You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction. Miguel
conviction over-confidence whatever-you-say
Whatever you say, say it with conviction Mark Twain
conviction goes great money people quote reminded swimming tests tide time warren
This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'