Ourself Quotes
96 quotes by 67 authors
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Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.
— Catherine DeVrye
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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
— Alan Watts
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The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
— Thomas Merton
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Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem of anger, we…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.
— William Shakespeare
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There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as…
— Judith Viorst
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As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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When we are happy, those around us will be happy, and in turn, those around them will also start to feel the same way. We…
— Anita Moorjani
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The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any…
— Stephen Batchelor
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One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain — has Corridors — surpassing Material Place—…
— Emily Dickinson
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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human…
— Honore de Balzac
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which…
— Paracelsus
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We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of…
— Farley Mowat
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There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search…
— Bell Hooks
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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to…
— Lucy Larcom
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We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
— Bill Gates
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
— Nalini Nadkarni
Who Wrote These Ourself Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 96 Ourself Quotes, led by these top contributors: