"Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient."

-- Joseph Stowell

#Self Quotes #Deceit Quotes #Self Sufficient Quotes

“What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily scheduleÂ…. This is what receives your care and attention--an by definition, your love.”
“Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.”
“In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.”
“The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.”

Source : Richard J. Leider (2008). “Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.339, ReadHowYouWant.com
“What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?”
“...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.”
“Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.”

Source : George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”
“A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn't. I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He's never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex, so I have no problem.”

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