Ourselves Quotes

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.