Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.
Death is the defined destination at the end of our life where we transform and transcend ourselves for eternal life.
True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.
We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.
Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.
As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Ash: Then let's head on down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch.
Commoner: It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.
