Quotes of: Itself Keyword

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

The Meme Machine

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

The Gaians sneered at the Zhore behind their backs, calling them pacifists, as if that word were an insult, but Lirzhan did not take it as such. A peaceful solution was always best, but if one did not present itself, then so be it.

The Mandala Maneuver

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

Major Themes of the Qur'an

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

Misery

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Night Flight

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

The Night Watch

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.

Little, Big

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

The Lover's Dictionary

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

Learning to Dance in the Rain

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

Magdalen Rising: The Beginning

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The Shock of the New

Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.

Something like Normal

All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself; it cannot stand against Jesus Christ.

Spiritual Wisdom from Jesus Christ: Volume One

Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words

The Sleep of Reason

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

The Sun Watches the Sun