Our Self Quotes
234 quotes by 173 authors
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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been…
— Jaron Lanier
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to…
— Queen Latifah
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
— Maxwell Maltz
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To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of…
— Lynn Margulis
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
— Marcel Proust
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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our…
— Frank Serpico
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to…
— John Irving
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.
— E E Cummings
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They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount…
— Sándor Márai
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The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves…
— Erwin McManus
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With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.
— Azar Nafisi
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Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.…
— Bell Hooks
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We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
— Eric Hoffer
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and…
— Brennan Manning
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Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most…
— Carlos Castaneda
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When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
— Shane Claiborne
Who Wrote These Our Self Quotes
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