#himself

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#get #god #hard #himself #life

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#encouraged #had #himself #kennedy #lover

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#himself #man #many #pleasure #really

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#goal #himself #his #loses #man

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#being #better #book #brady #chance

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #composer #conscious #gloriously #higher

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. ↗

— Robert South

#expectation #finds #greatest #half #himself

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#care #champion #could #himself #perseverance

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#cannot #forgive #himself #how #unhappy