Quotes of: Ourselves Keyword

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

Diane Ackerman

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to a...

Deborah Tannen

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Harold Bloom

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body...

Marcel Proust

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.

John O'Donohue

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that ...

Nalini Nadkarni

I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.

Peter Mullan

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Roberto Bolano

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

The Architecture of Happiness

The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Anne of the Island

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

Allegiant

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

All for Love

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

The Aleph and Other Stories

To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

A Habit of Resistance

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

The Hundred Secret Senses

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

An Imaginary Life

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries