Quotes about ourselves

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.(1778 - 1830)

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility

It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.

We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us

Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

God doesn't punish us.We do that all by ourselves.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

You can't be me and I can't be you, so I guess that means we'll have to be ourselves.

Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life.

So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life

The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine just the way we are.

We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.

It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

Only in making peace - with ourselves, with others, and the world - will any of us find the life we are hoping for.

If we could think about somebody else other than ourselves for a few minutes a day, this world would be so much better off.

Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

The more we try to stop others from falling, the more we hurt ourselves.

We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

The world is a mirror of ourselves.

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

Life - Don't waste it!

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling 'pissy.'"Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves." ~ David Jenkins, 2013

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves."The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny. Rather, it is a multidimensional dynamic entity that interacts with all things, even the very smallest. And what part we each place in it and the effect we have on it is a matter of our own choice.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.

When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course.

We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, until we learn more...

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves

At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

God saved us so that we could become servants of his will and dedicate ourselves to what he wants us to do

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

I think the purpose of life is to know who we are to ourselves and others, to know where we are in terms of time and place, and to do what we can to stay alive. what happens thereafter is the purpose of death.

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.

When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.

Just we know what we want. Just we can discover our anticipation. Just we can understand ourselves. so find yourself. Invest time on finding yourself rather than investing enrgy recklessly on the undesirable people. Consequently disappointment will lessen and happiness will belimp.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

We can't know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we're not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.

We dress ourselves up in lies,So that the nakedness of truth doesn't come out.

How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?

The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was – but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before – and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would

When we practice self-compassion in our lives, we are compelled to be more understanding and accepting toward ourselves.

I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

He concluded in the last scene that we are given two choices in life. We can allow ourselves to love and care for others, which makes us vulnerable to their sickness, death, or rejection. Or we can protect ourselves by refusing to love. Lewis decided that it is better to feel and to suffer than to go through life isolated, insulated, and lonely.

Isn't unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?

In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need

Many of us are destined to be alone, while most of us sentence ourselves to it.

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.