Selbsterhaltungstrieb Quotes & Sayings

She had got beyond despair. — Michael McDowell

The next morning, my head and every muscle in my body hurt as if I'd run a marathon through six feet of snow in stilettos. — Courtney Allison Moulton

So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides ... And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting. — Allison Mackie

I am suggesting that congregations across America are weak because many of us church members have lost the biblical understanding of what it means to be a part of the body of Christ. — Thom S. Rainer

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. — Jane Austen

The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world. — Billy Graham

What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind. — Robert Grudin

Now is a good time to take a moment for positive thoughts about the person who convinced you that you wanted a Mac. That person was right! — Bob LeVitus

Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea. — Ezra Miller

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me. — Mason Cooley

From the beginning, the only thing I couldn't tolerate about you was how impossible you were to ignore. — Jennifer DeLucy

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still. — Michel De Montaigne