Ourselves Quotes
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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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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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 call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
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I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.
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We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
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Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.
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We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.
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Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.
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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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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
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We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.
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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
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To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves.
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When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
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Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
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The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
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When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
