Nonselfness Quotes & Sayings

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein

What magnetic force draws us to scenes of pain, and words that wound us? You have seen this, I told myself as I marched along to that apartment. You have seen this already, you've lived through this, spare yourself — Andrew Sean Greer

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible. — Steven Curtis Chapman

There is no house like the house of belonging. — David Whyte

I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God. — John Climacus

Those times are the hardest. When you can see yourself confined to your bed because you have no strength or will to leave, and then you find yourself yelling at someone you love because they want to help but they can't. When you wake up in a gutter after trying to drink or smoke or dance away the ache, or the lack thereof. Those times when you are more demon than you are you. — Jenny Lawson

In its offensive against the state, the urban guerilla cannot resort to terrorism as a weapon. — Red Army Faction

The gods are jealous and men are fools. — Marc Gascoigne

She was used to being an observer, never the observed — Kimberly Truesdale

Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness. — Christa Wolf

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. — Lewis Thomas

I'm not great at putting my hair into a bun, but I'll do it if I have to. — Mariah Carey