Ourselves Quotes
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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 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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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in 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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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.
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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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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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... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
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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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We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
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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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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 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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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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We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.
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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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To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves.
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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.
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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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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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There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.
