Ourselves Quotes
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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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We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare 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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And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at 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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No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
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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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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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We need to enlighten people and tell the world leaders there has to be a better way. If we allow the animal kingdom to disappear, at the rapid rate it is disappearing, then we are killing ourselves faster than we think.
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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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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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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
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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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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling 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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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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This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.
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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.
