Ourselves Quotes
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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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Fear Teaches Us A Lot About Ourselves.
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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
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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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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
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In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
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The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
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The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
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Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.
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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 must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.
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Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
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I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.
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I remember growing up as a kid in Houston, playing 3-on-3 in my grandmother's driveway. I was lucky to be the youngest of four kids, so we had each other to keep ourselves busy and out of trouble. Not all kids are that fortunate.
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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.
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We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.
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So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.
