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— Letty Cottin Pogrebin"Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?"
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When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
— P. M. Forni
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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
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