"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."

-- Cullen Hightower

#Running Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.40, Transaction Publishers
“Sometimes I've been to cryin' for unborn children That might have made me complete But I, I took the sweet life and never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet I spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that cost too much to be free Hey lady, I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me”
“To be human means to feel inferior.”
“Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.”
“Let nature decide. When a cow is biologically ready to have sex relations, she mates with the nearest well-hung bull. When a flower is ready to scatter its seed, it pollinates. It's the same way throughout nature - except with man, who tries to postpone consummation of his sex drive, unsuccessfully for the most part, for six or eight years after he reaches puberty.”
“Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.416, Macmillan
“But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.”
“Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.”

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