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Yourself Quotes (page 155)

Teaching Fire a LessonFire is hot. That's what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn't do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won't be hot next time is certainly not time well spent. Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it's not human. But human beings are similar, in that they're not going to change any time soon either. Seth Godin
We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test. Ken Follet
Andre Agassi quote: "There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of..."
There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired.. Andre Agassi
Donald Trump quote: "What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them..."
What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself? Donald Trump
Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open -- the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants. Jeanette Winterson
Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light? Ramakrishna
Norton Juster quote: "If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself."
If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. Norton Juster
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do..."
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
Jenny Holzer quote: "Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway."
Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway. Jenny Holzer
...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You asked him a question in the morning and he might answer in the afternoon, or he might never. Flannery O'Connor
Haruki Murakami quote: "No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked..."
No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. Haruki Murakami
Sue Grafton quote: "You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end..."
You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself. Sue Grafton
You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. C. S. Lewis
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like... George F. Kennan
Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead. Neal Stephenson

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