Quotes of: Ourselves Keyword

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Eli the Good

Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.

Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Education of a Wandering Man

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Fire

Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

The Good Psychologist

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Handle with Care

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

The Hakawati

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

The Art of War

We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.

BUDA Y EL AMOR, EL

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

Boost Your Self Esteem

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

Boost Your Self Esteem

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Born in Fire

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Birth of a Killer

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Blood Wedding and Yerma

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Collecting Original Art

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Joan Collins

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning

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.

Isak Dinesen