A Quote by Lucy Grealy

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

Lucy Grealy

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Consciousness Device Efficient Enough Honing Last Life Me My Life Partly Rest Self Self-Conscious Sharp Torture

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Lucy Grealy
American - Poet
June 3, 1963 - December 18, 2002

Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

Ernie J Zelinski

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Marianne Williamson

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families would not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation.

Robert Neelly Bellah

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

Ben Howard

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

George Burns

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

Steve Jobs

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Louise Gluck

The discoveries of the last couple decades are showing that properties of a self do actually inhere in matter, that matter seems to have properties of self-organization and life, even intelligence, consciousness. I can't say that science has proved these things, but it at least suggests the possibility. As we re-invest the world with sacredness, "spiritual" comes to mean something very different. If only a human being has these qualities, then spiritual work is inner. It's all about your own consciousness.

Charles Eisenstein

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

Elana Meyers

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

William Golding

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Ed Asner

After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.