Ourselves Quotes
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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.
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We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not important to own a particular brand of car. But we should be a brand in ourselves. Each of us is unique.
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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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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even 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 keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
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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 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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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
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If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
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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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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
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We tend to outdo ourselves.
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We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.
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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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... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
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To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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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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I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.
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We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.
