Ourselves Quotes

• ...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.

  

  David Clennon
  • Found
  • Americans
  • To Do

• But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Earth
  • Moments
  • Torture

• 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.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Complain

• We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • True
  • Fans
  • Honest

• When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Earth
  • Object
  • Dehumanize

• 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Trying
  • Changed
  • Really

• If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Sense
  • Succeed
  • Ourselves

• Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

  

  Kabir
  • Why
  • Become
  • Here

• We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Game
  • Position

• 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.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Know
  • Stories
  • Sense

• In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Problems
  • Reflecting
  • Include

• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ourselves
  • Literally
  • Astound

• We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Curious
  • Manifestations
  • Morphing

• 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!

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Propose
  • Jack
  • Rub

• 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.

  

  Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Culture
  • Creatures
  • Return

• I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Think
  • Past
  • Honor

• 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.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • People
  • World
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • See
  • Miracles
  • Awaken

• We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

  

  Plotinus
  • Beauty
  • Ourselves
  • Possess

• If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Love
  • Approach

• We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feel
  • Stress
  • Ourselves

• Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love Is
  • Ourselves
  • Self-Sabotage

• We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • To Do
  • Ask
  • Cannot

• We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ourselves
  • Guide

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