Ourselves Quotes
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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
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Remorse turns us against 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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It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
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The things that make us safest from others make us least from 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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'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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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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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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The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of 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 are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.
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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.
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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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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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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As we learn about each other, so we learn about 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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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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It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive 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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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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No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.
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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.
