Our Own Selves Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster…
— Octavio Paz
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We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our…
— Deepak Chopra
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God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.…
— Thomas Merton
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The next frontier is our own selves.
— Joel Garreau
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How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it…
— Craig Davidson
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If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our…
— Nathaniel Cotton
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Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually
— Malcolm X
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'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...…
— Socrates
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There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the…
— Kenny Smith
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Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves.
— Sheikh Abdullah
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Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will…
— R. D. Laing
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In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free
— Trevor Hall
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
— Anne Lamott
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and…
— James Anthony Froude
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These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;…
— Andre Malraux
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…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
— Philip K. Dick
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