Ourselves Quotes
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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 live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.
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We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
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The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
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It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
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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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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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We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
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And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
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We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare 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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As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.
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'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?
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We tend to outdo 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.
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We need to enlighten people and tell the world leaders there has to be a better way. If we allow the animal kingdom to disappear, at the rapid rate it is disappearing, then we are killing ourselves faster than we think.
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No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.
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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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Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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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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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
