#itself

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#around #cannot #ever #exist #experience

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#different #different ways #evaluate #hard #hard thing

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#developing #different #different directions #directions #each

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#country #down #dumber #get #gets

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#change #connected #itself #one thing #thing

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#book #doubt #how #itself #live

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#even #imitation #improvement #itself #life

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#confidence #itself #lack #reflects #society

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#age #bad #beauty #even #everything