“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.” LittlesSelfLife IsExistenceWonderClassRolesModernMiddleConditionsIdentitySourceReturnDegreesMajorsCrisisSakeDefinedRevelationsMiddle ClassDaily LifeUrbanTrue SelfAcheStressfulIdentity CrisisRole PlayingSelf Revelation Author:E. O. Wilson
“When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?” StillsGamesSportsPayWonderGroupsLessonsEgoSakeLipsUpliftingTeamworkOften IsCamaraderieReally TrueLip ServiceTaming Author:Michel Martin
“When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.” ShouldChildrenHelpingWonderChildhoodArgumentSakeFirmProtagonists Author:Suzanne La Follette
“I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.” FeelsRealRealityIndividualHalfWonderAliveTraditionHatredSakeCustomsSuperstitionsSpontaneousDetestSense Of Wonder Author:Alfred Stieglitz
“In fact I wonder if I should bend my own rules a little and for the sake of writing a good song it doesn't have to been so autobiographical, but that's a stupid rule to live by as some of my favourite artists' songs, they have a song that you think is about their life [which] probably even isn't, but it's a great song.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingLittlesFactsArtistSongMy OwnWonderStupidSakeLive ByFavouriteRules To Live By Author:The Rocket Summer
“It seems that just Being, the sheer fact of existence, that there is something rather than nothing, already inspires a wonder akin to religion. But - as in my comment about the Kingdom of God in the last answer - Jewish and Christian traditions are also prepared to challenge what 'is' for the sake of what could be.” FactsSeemsChristianLastsChallengesAnswersExistenceWonderInspireTraditionPreparedSakeKingdomsCommentJust BeingSheerKingdom Of God Author:George Pattison