Characteristics Quote by Margaret J. Wheatley

But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order…

— Frederic Bastiat

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no…

— Al Duncan

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit…

— Anthony Giddens

“If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the…

— Ayn Rand

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

— Virginia Woolf

The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal…

— Aldo Leopold

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears…

— Karl Marx

The self is not a thing, but a process.

— Thomas Metzinger

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

— John Dewey

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves

— Anonymous

“Spontaneous self-organization is not restricted to living systems;”

— Oliver Sacks