Our Own Selves Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

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
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
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
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
The next frontier is our own selves. — Joel Garreau
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
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
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually — Malcolm X
'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
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
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
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
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
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
When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. — Anne Lamott
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
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
â€¦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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