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We can only love the way we were created to if we are first whole in ourselves.
— Aaron M. Patterson
We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.
— Julian Fellowes
How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?
— Nico J. Genes
We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.
— Frederick Lenz
One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
— Gail Sheehy
I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves.
— Tracy McMillan
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
— Simone Weil
Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.
— Shakira
We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.
— Laverne Cox
The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.
— Kim H. Krisco
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
— Jack Kornfield
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
— Albert Einstein
The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
— C.S. Lewis
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
— Saint John Chrysostom
We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.
— Christie Watson
We should surround ourselves with people who feel like abundance.
— Cheryl Strayed
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
— David Platt
Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.
— Simon Mainwaring
We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.
— Piero Ferrucci
Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.
— Debbie Macomber
Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves,
— D. A. Carson
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.
— Jose Emilio Pacheco
Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.
— Hiromu Arakawa
SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.
— Jill Tarter
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
— Anais Nin
Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
— David Hawkins
In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone.
— Sterling Hayden
God should worshiped, not avenged. It is absurd for insects like ourselves to think we can avenge God.
— Voltaire
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
— James Monroe
The sky wasn't the limit - the only limits were the ones we imposed upon ourselves.
— Nicole Williams
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
— Alan Hirsch
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
— Sylvia Earle
Friends are ourselves.
— John Donne
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
— Brad Pitt
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
— John Petit-Senn
Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.
— Aunguttara Nikaya
We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.
— Frederick Lenz
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
— Alice Walker
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
— Swami Vivekananda
We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not.
— Paul Auster
And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.
— George William Norris
Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.
Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joy
for others and ourselves. — Bill Jensen
Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joy
for others and ourselves. — Bill Jensen
Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
— Swami Vivekananda
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
— Albert Ellis
Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
— David J. Greer
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
— Pema Chodron
The best way to transform ourselves is by transforming our consciousness and awareness.
— Debasish Mridha
It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn't.
— Kenneth Cole
If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
— Napoleon Hill
FORGIVENESS ADDRESSES HOW WE THINK AND FEEL ABOUT OTHERS AND OURSELVES AND HOW THOSE THOUGHTS MANIFEST WITHIN OUR LIVES AS ENERGY.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.
— Ashton Applewhite
England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
— Edmund Burke
Our house is made of glass ... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.
— Deepak Chopra
To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.
— Anodea Judith
We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
— Sylvia Plath
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
— Michel De Montaigne
We are citizens of heaven.
We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ. — Lailah Gifty Akita
We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ. — Lailah Gifty Akita
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
— Thomas Sowell
And as the rest of the world watches, we still try to learn how to see ourselves.
— Mychal Denzel Smith
We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.
— Gerry Spence
Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts.
— Benebell Wen
What sense is there in pain at all - however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?
— Anne Carson
We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
— Paul Park
Life is always so serious. We all need to stop for a minute, make faces at ourselves, and laugh. I
— Alex Grayson
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.
— Albert Einstein
We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.
— Cortney S. Warren
Evil's a thing of the mind. We humans got the full measure of it ourselves.
Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?
I ain't good. — Alden Bell
Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?
I ain't good. — Alden Bell
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
— Henry David Thoreau
Then I saw ... you see ... I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Limitations are possibilities ...
Opportunities to perceive ourselves
Beyond our present selves ... — Ilchi Lee
Opportunities to perceive ourselves
Beyond our present selves ... — Ilchi Lee
The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.
— Richard Paul Evans
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
— Kelly Osbourne
When we experience conflict or dissatisfaction, we are being called on to develop something in ourselves that is weak, hidden, or unknown.
— Jett Psaris
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
— Jack Kornfield
It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.
— Michel Houellebecq
We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied.
— George Harrison
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves.
— Thomas Nagel
We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.
— Bryant H. McGill
We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human.
— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan