Egoismus Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can. — C.S. Lewis

Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well.
Her worst trait. Her best trait.
The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb.
A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth. — Marie Rutkoski

In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had just been picked out of the yard; and while I was drawing, my sharpened yellow pencil and the cup of the yellow daffodil gave off wiffs just alike. That the pencil doing the drawing should give off the same smell of the flower it drew seemed part of the art lesson - as shouldn't it be? Children, like animals use all their sense to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way, all over again. Here and there, it's the same world. Or now and then we'll hear from an artist who's never lost it. — Eudora Welty

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots. — Bill Hybels

You couldn't get rid of the past. You couldn't ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay. — Tarryn Fisher

For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen. — Procopius

I've played a few times, Anna. Remember the parties?"
"Not exactly." I must have been in the bathroom during that part of the nonexistent parties, hiding out from the vomiting hot girl while Frankie completed her beer pong apprenticeship. — Sarah Ockler

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. — G.K. Chesterton

I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like. — Linda McCartney

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.' — Charles R. Schwab

Pussy punch: when a twat tap just isn't enough — Tara Sivec

The weight placed upon the value of competitive succes is so great in our culture and the anxiety occasioned by the possibility of failure to achieve this goal is so prevalent that there is reason for assuming that individual competitive succes is both the dominant goal in our culture and the most pervasive ocassion for anxiety. — Rollo May

The word of God is a fountain of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever. — Adriano Bulla

My gramps is a lot like you. No sense of adventure. All he does is sit in his urn... — Cleo Peitsche