Absorption Quotes

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Zeena Schreck

Self, Stopping, Our Actions

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Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-absorption without self-awareness.

Leslie Jamison

Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.

P. M. Forni

Mean, Eye, Self

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Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Life, Self, Years

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Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

William George Jordan

Radiation, Life Is, States

William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.16, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Walter Lippmann

Travel, Adventure, Usa

Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

Paul Reiser

Baby, Self, Kicking

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Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.

Lauren Oliver

Sadness, Space, Miracle

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.49, Hachette UK

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There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Self, Listening, Carrying On

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Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

James Cagney

Happiness, Happy Life, Self

James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

John Dewey

Selfishness, Gains, Facts

John Dewey (2008). “The School and Society”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Perfection, Joy

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Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mindlessness, on the other hand, or "no-mindness" as it has been called, is a condition of such complete absorption that there is not vestige of self-awareness.

Philip Kapleau

Self, Hands, Able

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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

William Osler

Lying, Soul, Vocation

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.55, ACP Press

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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Rollo May

Time, Creativity, Imagination

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Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

Timothy Keller

Prayer, Self, Giving

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And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

Joan Wickersham

Healing, Doe, Bruises

Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

Mark Vonnegut

Children, Grace, Making Love

Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.52, Seven Stories Press

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To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of eternity.

Philip Kapleau

Past, Life And Death, Giving

"The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Ouida

Love, Isolation, Absolutes

Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.10, Ouida

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Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.

Nathaniel Dorsky

Heart, Reality, Our World

Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”

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Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

Mark Rippetoe

Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

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It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

Humphrey Bogart

Men, Creative, Novelists

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

August Krogh

Science, Oxygen, Regulation

August Krogh (1977). “Respiratory adaptations, capillary exchange, and reflex mechanisms: proceedings of the August Krogh Centenary Symposium held in Srinagar, Kashmir (India), October 11-15, 1974”

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There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Timothy Keller

Self, Interesting, Miserable

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.21, Penguin

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