When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
We must first achieve peace within ourselves. Only then can we take that peace out into the world and invite others to make similar changes.
Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.
Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
The world around us will never be peaceful until we ourselves are at PEACE WITHIN. If we are fighting and angry on the inside we will never experience the opposite on the outside.
The greatest love is self love. When we work toward our inner self and self worth, that, is the best gift we give to ourselves.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.
There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.
The only way to stay positive and away from negative people is to be always true to one self, so let’s not misguide ourselves with any other belief anyway.
When we can’t see ourselves in our history, we begin to think that we are disconnected and suffering alone. Historical ignorance always precedes cultural imbalances and individual despair.
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing.
