Ourselves Quotes
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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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 are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.
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Anytime we try to remember anyone we've loved, what we're really remembering is ourselves.
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We don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves.
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When we see God through a fear-based lens, we end up with an inaccurate view of ourselves.
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Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.
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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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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.
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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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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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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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We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.
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We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.
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Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.
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How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.
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There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.
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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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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
