Ourselves Quotes

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.