Ourselves When Quotes

106 quotes by 98 authors

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we… — Victor Hugo
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves. — Anais Nin
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable… — Marjane Satrapi
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us… — Jon Katz
Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break… — Jonathan Lethem
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves… — Erwin McManus
We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes,… — Cecelia Ahern
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born… — Anne Lamott
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves,… — Irvin D. Yalom
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we… — Orhan Pamuk
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. — Isobelle Carmody
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves. — David Platt
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.… — Adam Smith
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George
...but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down... — Harper Lee
I donâ€™t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. Itâ€™s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves… — Deb Caletti
It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves;… — Julian Barnes
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. — Emile M. Cioran

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