Ourselves Quotes
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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
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To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.
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We don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves.
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.
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Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
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If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.
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How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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We can't change ourselves, it is Gods strength within us that makes the changes. We must do our part and God does His. What I tried to do myself is tiny compared to what God and I do together. He is the best partner I have ever had!
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.
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Collectively, we have all it takes to create a just and peaceful world, but we must work together and share our talents. We all need one another to find happiness within ourselves and within the world.
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We make ourselves up as we go.
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We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
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Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.
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How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.
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We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.
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The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
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Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
