Ourselves Quotes

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

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

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'