Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
Diane von Furstenberg

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Niels Bohr

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
Denis Waitley

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
Neale Donald Walsch

I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
Neale Donald Walsch

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas