Ourselves Quotes
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I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.
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Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
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Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
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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'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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In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor has to raise their game to get there.
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We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.
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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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We must reform society before we can reform 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 cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in 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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We tend to outdo ourselves.
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It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
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As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
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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 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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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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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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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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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 compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
