Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.
– Ashim Shanker
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- What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself? – Ashim Shanker
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- Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in! – Anne Rice
- Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom. – Raoul Vaneigem
- In prayer, God doesn’t guarantee the answer you want, but He does guarantee the answer you need. – Todd Stocker
- To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. – TA Miles
- The best way to get through any challenge is to step back, look up at the sky, breathe deeply in and out, smile if you have to-¦then dive in. – Waylon H Lewis
- Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners – Elizabeth Bourgeret
- A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption. – Auliq Ice
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
- To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. – Dani Shapiro
- One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much. – Marty Rubin
- [It’s] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97 – Marcel Benabou
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- First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you. – Clint Eastwood
- To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift – Sunday Adelaja
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- Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. – Brian Tracy
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- Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature. – Steven Magee
- Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption. – Guy de Maupassant
- The words -˜drink me’ come to mind. Anyone besides me up for some heavy alcohol consumption? – Elle Lothlorien
- Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption. – Jennifer Sodini
- Assumption is the biggest human consumption. – Tasneem Hameed
- Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management. – Mark Sisson
- The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption. – William Stanley Jevons
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- Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption. – Jeanette Winterson
- Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. – Shannon L Alder