Ourselves Quotes
1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors
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When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger…
— Ally Condie
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
— Dan Harmon
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There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
— Bryant H. McGill
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I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives…
— Robert Crais
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We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task:…
— Guy Finley
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All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -…
— Guy Finley
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We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue…
— Kenneth R. Miller
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A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His…
— Victoria Osteen
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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is…
— Ben Foster
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We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until…
— Cecelia Ahern
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During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into…
— Darrell Hammond
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We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our…
— Jennifer Nettles
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled…
— Khaled Hosseini
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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because…
— Richard Rohr
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Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do not work in…
— Richard Rohr
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As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves.…
— Sharon Salzberg
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We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for…
— Sharon Salzberg
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We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something…
— Sharon Salzberg
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting,…
— Sam Harris
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
— Sam Harris
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal…
— Ian K. Smith
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I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt…
— Johnny Marr
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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great…
— Douglas R. Oberhelman
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I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
— Mary Karr
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No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative…
— Michael Horton
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