Ourselves Quotes
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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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!
R. M. Ballantyne
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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.
Anthony Lewis
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In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.
Shunryu Suzuki
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
William Wharton
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
Michael Cunningham
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If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.
Edward Boyden
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Robert Frost
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The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.
Katie Melua
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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.
Wes Moore
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When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.
J. Robert Oppenheimer