“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
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Madeleine L'Engle223
American writer 1918–2007Related quotes
“Throw something away and you declare it obsolete.”
China Miéville book Un Lun Dun
Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 12, “Safe Conduct” (p. 52)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: The Sorcerer in the North
“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”
David Levithan book Every Day
Variant: I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
Source: Every Day
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Variant: A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
Betty Friedan book The Feminine Mystique
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".
“A crime is something someone else commits.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XX
“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else…”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Mercy
“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Source: Blood and Guts in High School (1978)