“Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?” WorldWantSelfLife IsUsedDiesRealizingChanceExistenceConsciousGenerousInstantSplitsSplendorDrasticNovas Author:Robin Morgan
“When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, - The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?” HandsEyePainHeavenChanceUnitedConsciousAngelSeekingEaseNervesThrillDeliciousSighStrainPulseBosomsEcstaticUnison Author:Arthur Hugh Clough
“As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.” HumansMatterTogetherChanceHuman BeingsDealsClassModernParticularConsciousContactCuriousFascinationModern Life Author:Louis Auchincloss
“It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.” WorldImportantChanceGonePlanetsConsciousConcernedEchoesPositivelyOne Chance Author:Alex Gaskarth
“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.” IfsLittlesWould BeNextIndividualBornChanceNovelEnvironmentCuttingProgressGenerationsConsciousMethodExcellenceEducationalUnconsciousPlasticImitationAdaptationNext GenerationVariationShort Cuts Author:Elsie Clews Parsons
“I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsHas BeensSocialCausesChanceSpaceClassEconomicDiseaseConsciousProfitEaseBarriersArrangements Author:Randall Robinson
“We all get out, maybe for longer than we wish, because we all pass this mortal coil more or less and so we certainly get a chance to experience it again, and we've experienced it before we were born. So it's more or less our natural place of being, unless you believe that the only time you're conscious is when you're alive.” BelieveWishBornNaturalChanceAliveConsciousMortalsOnly Time Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.” PeopleWritingSelfMovingGoalChanceFocusHavensConsciousIncreasePlotIronicSelf ConsciousCharacterizationPacing Author:Christopher Rice
“I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.” TryingHelpingChanceDecisionConsciousOptimismBlindOptimisticPessimistic Author:Louise Erdrich
“A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.” LifeActionChoicesChanceCreationConsciousUnconsciousChances AreConscious And Unconscious Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.” PoliticalChanceActingSacrificeIntegrityIntellectualConsciousAestheticBias Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.” SelfSeemsReligionUniverseChanceExistenceAtheismConsciousArgumentChiefsScience And ReligionImpossibilityWondrousExistence Of GodScience ReligionGod And ScienceScience GodConceiving Book:Autobiography and Selected Letters Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters