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.
Gelek Rimpoche
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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.
Ray Fearon
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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
Daniel Beaty
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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.
Deena Metzger
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr
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We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
Gerald Hausman
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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.
Kareem Mortimer
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
Joseph Priestley
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
Melissa Leo
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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?
Rick Yancey
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Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us - or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
Christina Stead