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 keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of 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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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
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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 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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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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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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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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It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
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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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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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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there 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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To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves.
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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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I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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.
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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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Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.
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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.
