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Letter "S" » selves
«Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.»
«Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.»
«It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Keywords:
conform,
conform to,
definitions,
designed,
external,
facade,
physical body,
physical death,
release,
selves,
spiritual death,
The Spiritual
«I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.»
«Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.»
«If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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About:
Pain
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Keywords:
Avoiding,
calling together,
Call of,
elementary,
individuals,
insecurities,
insecurity,
instincts,
misery,
promiscuous,
satisfaction,
seeking,
selves,
surrender,
The Call
«I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.»
Author: Jim Morrison
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Poet,
Singer)
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Keywords:
actors,
Aristotle,
audience,
catharsis,
emotions,
event,
Just a,
On Stage,
purgation,
selves,
stage,
taking place,
theory,
tragedy,
witness,
witnessing
«It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive- they In whom our brightest days we would retrace, Our little selves reform'd in finer clay, Just as old age is creeping on apace, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, Th»
«Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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Keywords:
balanced,
cake,
characterized,
hearted,
ill-tempered,
ill temper,
last half,
railing,
railings,
scold,
scolded,
scolding,
selves,
tempered,
The Popular
«It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.»