Quotes About Ourselves

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

But we all have moments when we must listen in tears to the silence of the swarming path inside ourselves.

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

It hardly seems fair we'd get the universe all to ourselves...

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

When we love God, love our brothers and sisters, and love ourselves, our Maker is pleased.

As C. S. Lewis reminds us: In all our discussions of Hell we should keep steadily before our eyes the possible damnation, not of our enemies nor of our friends (since both these disturb the reason) but of ourselves. This [doctrine] is not about your wife or son, nor about Nero or Judas Iscariot; it is about you and me.

Can we awake from the century already 'or only cast over it 'propositions about the political 'as if to rescue ourselves?

Our stories are powerful. They teach, they speak, they inspire. They bring about change. But they are also fragile. Their threads are so easily broken by time, by lack of interest, by failure to understand the value that comes of knowing where we have been and who we have been. In this speed-of-light culture, our histories are fading more quickly than ever. Yet when we lose our stories, we lose ourselves. . . .

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

You're a professional. Finish the piece. It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

We must continually ask ourselves: Is our first aim to change our government or to see lives in and out of government changed for Christ?

life is complicated, but if it wasn't complicated, it would be a roller coaster on a flat track. Wouldn't be a ride worth taking. And, yeah, we never fully know ourselves, but that means we're mysterious enough to interest one another. And if we fully knew ourselves in this world, what reason would we have to still be here ?

By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.

The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

A portrait reveals the inner life, the secret life of the person. That's what painters try to capture. But it's one thing to hunt it down in someone else, and a whole other thing to turn the gun on ourselves.

is it treason to remember what we have done to deserve such villainy nothing we reassure ourselves nothing

And how many problems have been solved to date?" "We haven't exterminated ourselves." "You claim credit for that? I knew you had gall, but this is fantastic!

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

Nature is a living system, so sacred That those who use it profanely Will surely lose it; And to lose nature Is to lose ourselves." (Tao Te Ching 29)

The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions.