Quotes of: Itself Keyword

My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray.

Cassie Scot

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Culture and Value

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Daniel Deronda

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Stern observes that unformulated experience is not only a source of defense, but also a source of creativity. We must allow the unformulated to organize itself.

The Dissociative Mind

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

The Darkest Night

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

Death on the Toilet

It’s funny. From up here, the destruction seems to fade. Almost as if like people, in time, even the world can heal itself.

Divided

The heart easily commends and condemns itself, depending on our wave like performance. That is why we must base our worth in Jesus alone.

Eve of Awakening

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Ender's Game

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Fahrenheit 451

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

Fifth Business

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Family Happiness

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Five Quarters of the Orange

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

Flaubert's Parrot

...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense...

A Familiar Rain

Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?

Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

The Gray Isles