We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.


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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES
However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
WENDELL H. FORD
We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularl...
WENDELL H. FORD
I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
HAROLD H. GREENE
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the m...
HAROLD H. GREENE
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlie...
HAROLD H. GREENE
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a ...
HAROLD H. GREENE
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people tha...
HAROLD H. GREENE
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downsta...
HAROLD H. GREENE
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the ...
HAROLD H. GREENE