Ourselves Quotes
1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors
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In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we…
— Stephen Hawking
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Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and…
— Jane Leavy
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Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of…
— Joseph Edward Kurtz
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American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
— Unknown Author
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies…
— Gordon W. Allport
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In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we…
— Shekhar Kapur
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September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in…
— Rory Stewart
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The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society are…
— Rory Stewart
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Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion,…
— Noreena Hertz
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount…
— Martin Jacques
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Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.
— Mariella Frostrup
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
— F. W. de Klerk
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Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God…
— Nick Vujicic
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We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following…
— Thomas Ligotti
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God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable…
— Simon Van Booy
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Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals.…
— Shereen El Feki
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In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how…
— Carl Honore
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Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in…
— Dayananda Saraswati
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Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against…
— Seth Shostak
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Both my parents, grandmother and all close relatives who met Diana liked her very much, and my parents and grandmother never objected to our relationship.…
— Hasnat Khan
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if…
— Maya Angelou
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
— Marianne Williamson
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We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
— Marianne Williamson
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