#truism

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In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim. You promised not to do that, the boy said. What? You know what, Papa. He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back. I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.


Cormac McCarthy


#generosity #love #sacrifice #selflessness #love

Love is, just like isn’t isn’t is.


Jarod Kintz


#humor #love #truism #age

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.


Katherine Fullerton Gerould


#always #blunted #could #edge #fine

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.


Agatha Christie


#death

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.


John Green


#characters #desire #messy #experience

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.


Don DeLillo


#fear #humorous-truism #self-awareness #humor

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.


Honoré de Balzac


#pride #self-assuredness #truism #men

You can observe a lot just by watching.


Yogi Berra


#science #truism #science

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#creative #darkness #decide #destructive #every

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.


Mercedes Lackey


#heroes #heroism #heroism