Our Selves Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old… — Anne Roiphe
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on… — Joseph Glanvill
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We… — William Penn
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;… — John Updike
Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that… — Susan Wittig Albert
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourÂ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of… — Angela Davis
There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the… — Karen Horney
Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to… — William Penn
I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in… — John Welwood
Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the… — William Bradford
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not… — Mary Astell
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or… — Homi K. Bhabha
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night… — Nancy Mairs
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we… — Douglas Hofstadter
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through… — David Whyte
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds… — Tilda Swinton
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and… — George Berkeley

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