Ourselves Quotes
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We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.
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We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
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When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.
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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
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...I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933. We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do. Now I say, let the inspection process take its course.
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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We come to know ourselves only through stories. We listen to the stories of others, we inherit the stories of those who came before, and we make sense of our own experiences by constructing a narrative that holds them, and holds us, together. Stories are how we make sense of our lives.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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I propose,” replied Jack, “that we shall undress ourselves, rub ourselves entirely over with charcoal and grease, so that they shall not recognise us, and dash in and carry the girl off by a coup de main. In which case it will, of course, be neck or nothing, and a tremendous race to the cave, where, if they follow us, we will keep them at bay with our rifles.” “Umph!
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We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.
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In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.
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If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.
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We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.
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As we do so, our Child Within begins to awaken and eventually to flourish, grow and create. Virginia Satir said, “We need to see ourselves as basic miracles and worthy of love.
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We make it ourselves. We use only the good stuff.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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As we continued upward, I thought about how adults sometimes complain that kids only think about ourselves, but it's not true. We care a lot about other people, but most times, we don't have the power to change things for them.
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Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
