"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."

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Source : Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

Irving Babbitt

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Underdog Quotes

“Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.73, Lulu.com
“It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.”
“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”

Source : Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“If you argue against reality you will suffer.”
“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictatorâ€”computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.”
“When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.”
“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”

Source : Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (1999). “The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types”, Bantam

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