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In man a working level of narcissism is inseparable from self-esteem, from a basic sense of self-worth. We have learned, mostly from Alfred Adler, that what man needs most is to feel secure in his self-esteem. But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm, but a creature with a name who lives in a world of symbols, on an abstract idea of his own worth, an idea composed of sounds, words, and images, in the air, in the mind, on paper. And this means that man's natural yearning for organismic activity, the pleasures of incorporation and expansion, can be fed limitlessly in the domain of symbols and so into immortality. The single organism can expand into dimensions of worlds and times without moving a physical limb; it can take eternity into itself even as it gaspingly dies. — Ernest Becker

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them. — Hanoi Hannah

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane. — Al Gore

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about. — Steven Hill

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset. — Debasish Mridha

It takes a lot to look at things the way they are, the mind warns of something while the heart still makes the excuses. — Mansi Soni

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image. — Francis Bacon

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.' — Robert Gottlieb

The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede. — Gary Hopkins

- I am a mouse! You wait till my father hears about this!
- He may think it's an improvement. — Roald Dahl

I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes. — Sherwood Smith

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington. — Stephen Kinzer

Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me. — Amanda Bouchet

I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a gunslinger walking away from his last fight, determined to make it outside before I broke into a million pieces, I almost made it too. — Rob Grimes