#himself

The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ↗

— Theodor Reik

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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. ↗

— Auguste Renoir

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A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody. ↗

— Cardinal De Retz

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For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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