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“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.”

Kind Able Mother Felt Doubt Wife Youth Source Bears Sorrow Tests Misery Hearing Faithful No Doubt Unhappiness Deceiving Polygamy Faithful Wife

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.”

Death Causes Imagine Youth Source Uneasiness Approaching Death

Author:William Hazlitt

“To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.”

Wells Children Youth Source Delight Description Fountain Weariness Volcanoes Fountain Of Youth

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.”

Thinking Way Two Enough Age Today Young Energy Generations Youth Source Daughter Consumerism Two Daughters

Author:Mike Horn

“My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.”

Trying Years Wells Difficult Youth Source Activity Tricks Bitter Occupation Modest Berries Trying Everything

Author:Martin Munkacsi

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.”

“My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.”

Has Beens Joy Spirit Principles Youth Source Sorrow Battle Flesh Anguish Incessant Joys And Sorrows

Book:The last temptation of Christ

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”

Care Age Community Youth Source Disease Soil Destination Farming Healer Connectors

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture