Ourselves Quotes

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

I would obviously like to have been arriving in Valencia with the title still up for grabs, let's not kid ourselves, but even though Valentino has won, the season is not over for me.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.