Itself - Quotes
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises.
Fearing the transition, being afraid of death, is like being afraid of reality itself; like being afraid of the sun.
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
Strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Life itself is worth living for. If you`re not living the life that you want, you fight to achieve that life.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
The most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that`s what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever even knowing it was there.
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can`t even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I`m aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don`t have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.
If a `religion` is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
This is what man is like, a singular sample.
No copy existed before, nor does one at present.
As on a living branch each leaf is different
so time itself will breed no simulacrum.