Themselves - Quotes
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told.
People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
It`s only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.
People talk about books that write themselves, and it`s a lie. Books don`t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you`d believe.
People who eavesdrop seldom hear good about themselves, right? An old adage, and a true one.
You mayn`t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
A lot of times when people make accusations like that about other people - "Oh, he can't really be doing this for principled reasons, he must have some corrupt, nefarious reason" - they're saying a lot more about themselves than they are the target of their accusations, because those people, the ones who make that accusation, they themselves never act for any reason other than corrupt reasons, so they assume that everybody else is plagued by the same disease of soullessness as they are, and so that's the assumption.