We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
If you want to be in Hollywood, and if you want to make big international movies, you have to be able to make movies that don't have anything to do with social status or politics. To limit yourself to just do these little small movies and call it black cinema itself is a mistake to me.
The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.
At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me in a way, as if someone came up to you and started speaking a language you'd never heard but understood and was able to express things the language you knew could not.
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
China in particular is an absolutely fascinating place to be. Culturally and politically and economically it's becoming more and more relevant. If you look at how China is perceived in different parts of the world, you can recognize it's very dynamic. It's also challenging what it thinks of itself.
Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.
