Themselves Quotes

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don’t. That’s why they need “guarantees.”

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.