Itself - Quotes
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.
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.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
The Earth itself must pass away,
must like a bubble effervesce
and burst to empty nothingness!
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.
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.