Ourselves Quotes
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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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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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.
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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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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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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.
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...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
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It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
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The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
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Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
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The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
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We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.
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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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We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.
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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.
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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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Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
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We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
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I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.
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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in 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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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
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We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.
