Absorption Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absorption Baby Egotism Provoking Resentment Self Self absorption
“Society might favour able-bodied babies, but it is massively guilty of disabling those healthy babies once they are old enough to imbibe the toxic… — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time! — Douglas Feaver Copy Share Image
Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised society this… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all thingswonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that… — Eda Le Shan Copy Share Image
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and woman make… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In fact, studies show that vegans tend to get more iron than meat eaters. Vitamin C from fruits and vegetables increases iron absorption. Meanwhile,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work, I'd say.… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a… — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that… — George Weigel Copy Share Image