Ourselves Quotes
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'We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.
Courtney Milan -
I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
Richard Preston
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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?
Rebecca Wells -
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.
Catharine Arnold -
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
Deborah Tall -
We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
Cate Blanchett -
To move the world we must move ourselves.
Socrates -
Anytime we try to remember anyone we've loved, what we're really remembering is ourselves.
Christopher McCormick
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I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.
Rene Daumal -
We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.
Blake Judd -
I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.
Demetria McKinney -
It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves.
Carly Aquilino -
Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.
Edward Joseph Young -
Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Dale Peck
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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.
David Abram -
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.
Craig Davidson -
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
Danah Boyd -
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 -
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal -
Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.
Erik Griffin
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We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area.
Rajeev Suri -
We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
Arthur Dove -
Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.
Ainsley Earhardt