Expressing Itself Quotes

#1. The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Sidney Poitier

#2. You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Jean Houston

#3. If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul's music.

Sri Chinmoy

#4. We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.

Jay Woodman

#5. I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

J.I. Packer

#6. The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.

La Meri

#7. Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.

Adyashanti

#8. Meekness is essentially a true view of oneself, expressing itself in attitude and conduct with respect to others. It is therefore two things. It is my attitude towards myself, and it is an expression of that in my relationship to others.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#9. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Jack London

#10. Hoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

Ernest Holmes

#11. When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry way of expressing itself.

Adam Makos

#12. You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Richard Schmid

#14. You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs

#16. To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine
such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

Jack London

#17. Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Rebecca West

#18. The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

Richard Chenevix Trench

#19. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love (v. 6).

Francis Chan

#20. Life is a field of cosmic consciousness, expressing itself in million ways in space-time through quantum entanglement

Amit Ray

#21. You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

Amy Grant

#22. I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

Andrew Sullivan

#23. By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation ... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

Chin-Ning Chu

#24. Jesus indicated that there will be a permissive society just before He comes back ... the world today is on an immoral binge such as has not been known since the days of Rome. We are in a hedonistic society, and what we are seeing is human nature expressing itself without God.

Billy Graham

#25. Luck is often just skill expressing itself without the brain's consent.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#26. I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.

Rose Wilder Lane

#27. Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Gaston Bachelard

#28. We're all just a rainbow of consciousness expressing itself through different colors

Dana Gore

#29. Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.

Paulo Coelho

#30. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

David Bayles

#31. Good theology helps us keep music in its proper place. We learn that music isn't an end in itself but rather a means of expressing the worship already present in our hearts through the new life we've received in Jesus Christ.

Bob Kauflin

#32. Nothing in the Universe/God is ever lost or gained but simply a field of energy and matter in a constant state of flux. We are all part of one big energy organism expressing and experiencing itself.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#33. Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

Chris Matakas

#34. What means the fact
which is so common, so universal
that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

Henry David Thoreau

#35. God is the reason expressing, affirming itself as the highest existence. To the imagination, the reason is the revelation of God; but to the reason, God is the revelation of the reason[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#36. Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith.

Henry R. Van Til

#37. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Eric Drooker

#38. Mere knowledge of human psychology would in itself infallibly make us despondent if we were not cheered and kept alert by the satisfaction of expressing it.

Thomas Mann

#39. I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

Lin Yutang

#40. A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

Dwight Yoakam

#41. I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Harry Callahan

#42. The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

Barack Obama