Our Self Quotes
234 Our Self quotes by 173 unique authors
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They…
— Judith Viorst
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It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must…
— Albert Einstein
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True abundance isn't based on our net worth, it's based on our self-worth.
— Gabrielle Bernstein
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A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from…
— David Richo
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be…
— Timothy Keller
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Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.
— John Agard
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The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
— Dorothy Height
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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to…
— Robert Greene
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Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of…
— Dennis Kucinich
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I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she…
— Joko Beck
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There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change…
— James E. Faust
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Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of…
— Nelson Algren
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We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more…
— Brian Tracy
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Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.
— Rick Warren
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Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
— Francois Fenelon
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This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray,…
— Julian of Norwich
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Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that…
— K.P. Yohannan
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We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves. The normal mistake…
— Roberto Assagioli
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Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen…
— Edmund Clowney
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We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob…
— James Harvey Robinson
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