A Quote by Christina Stead

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Australian - Novelist
July 17, 1902 - March 31, 1983

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

Margery Wilson

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Saint Augustine

Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

Arlene Francis

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Anna Brownell Jameson

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Ben Okri

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Rajneesh

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Benjamin Franklin

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

C. S. Lewis

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Keating

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

Adrienne Monnier

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

Bayazid Bastami

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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