#itself

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#beauty #body #cage #gilt #infancy

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#changing #even #itself #must #still

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#arabia #days #exporter #exports #got

...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe. ↗

— Peter F. Hamilton

#design

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#itself #terror #world

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#assignment #develops #every #great #increasingly

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#financial #industry #itself #others #serve

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge. ↗

— Peter Lombard

#knowledge #knows #love #loves #mind

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#had #i #itself #love #myself

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#also #breath #control #itself #life