Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn’t are as much a part of golf as life itself.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
The future will take care of itself. My plans have fallen flat. Nothing that I planned has worked for me so far. So I don’t plan anymore. I keep short-term plans.
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain’t never going to see nothing brand new; you’re only going to see when records are broken. And we’re here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
The unfed mind devours itself.
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
To me, ‘The End of the Jews’ – both the title and the novel itself – is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can’t play cricket without any rules.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn’t irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening – the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
‘No’ is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
I used to be of the opinion that it didn’t matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin’. Which is true, but politics are still important.
