Itself Quotes (page 51)

• 
• 
• 

• jealousy
• fear
• fears

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. William Shakespeare

• driving
• lies
• work

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. Martin Luther

• caring
• grief
• joy

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain

• good
• atheist
• respect

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as... Thomas Paine

• water
• humanity
• inventiveness

Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. Tom Robbins

• maturity
• new
• heart

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugne de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen... Honore de Balzac

• people
• greatness
• power

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would... Kenneth Grahame

• act
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• acted

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. Howard Zinn

• flower
• star
• mindfulness

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence. Edmond Rostand

• travel
• memories
• memorial

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. Julian Barnes

• contentment
• mountain
• crying

Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, "I've had enough of this. Arnold Bennett

• fashion
• reality
• cloth

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. Karl Lagerfeld

• life
• breakfast
• chance

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality. Robert A. Heinlein

• happy
• happiness
• beginning

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute. Rick Moody

• eyes
• eye
• blink

...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. Chaim Potok