Quotes About Ourselves

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

It is important not to delude ourselves into thinking that ideological monstrosities were constructed by monsters. They were not; they are not.

Saying no to the inevitable is one of the few precious ways our own species redeems itself from oblivion- or at least tries to.

Force can bring satisfaction, but only power brings joy. Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

Safety refers to an inner sense that no harm will come to us for freely being ourselves in feeling, word and deed. Security refers to an inner sense that someone will be there for us.

What a place we find ourselves in now. What a mad and dangerous universe of possibility.

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

It is rare that the human mind can determine the truths of nature, or even of ourselves, by intuition or casual observation. That

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

There is nothing in this world of value... nothing worth risking our lives for... except perhaps... what little we can create for ourselves.

We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.

Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

You did not pick up this book because you were interested in the neo-pagan revival. You picked it up because, from earliest childhood, you, like the author and the artist, have been haunted by - at times possessed by - the figure of the witch. Les us turn now to her. We will find her inside ourselves.

We need personal prayer—to sustain us, to help us find courage, to lament. Jesus provides the example that in cases of extreme concern, of course, we pray for ourselves.

we should be able to look at nature as part of God's creation, as given to us in trust, as testifying to the divine while it is not itself divine. We get all this and more when we look at the nature miracles the Gospels record. Each one tells us something about Christ, but each one also tells us something about understanding the Scriptures of Israel, and each one also tells us something about ourselves.

The Diesel team has incredible passion. We work for ourselves and design for ourselves. When I see a new watch in our collection, I go crazy. I want one of everything.

Philosophy is all about our beliefs and attitudes about ourselves and the world. Doing philosophy, therefore, is first of all the activity of stating, as clearly and as convincingly as possible, what we believe and what we believe in.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

How comforting to witness a fictional person (who is also, miraculously, ourselves as we read) suffering the same agonies of a saccharine dismissal and, importantly, surviving.