Ourselves Quotes
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves
Willa Sibert Cather
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances
W. R. Inge
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The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all
Tryon Edwards
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord
Thomas Paine
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
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Ninety percent of the world`s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
Sydney J. Harris
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
Stewart B. Johnson
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
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We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us
Robert Atkyns
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we`re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we`ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be u...
Richard Bach
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We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we`ve created ourselves? Who`s to blame, who`s to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?
Richard Bach
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they`re necessary to reach the places we`ve chosen to go.
Richard Bach
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
Peter McWilliams
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The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
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Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn`t c...
Meredith Grey
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don`t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox`s or bear`s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn t...
Meister Eckhart
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We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves
May Lamberton Becker
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, `Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?` Actually, who...
Maryanne Williamson
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Mark Rutherford
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Mark Rutherford
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
