Quotes of: Ourselves Keyword

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Shakti Gawain

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Ann Bancroft

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

Warren Stephens

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Guy Laliberte

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

Traditional

Jesus tells us: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Mk 12:31). How can we love our neighbor if we can’t or won’t love ourselves, at least a little? When we hold ourselves to unrealistic standards, that perfectionist attitude can’t help but tr...

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to r...

How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

There’s no greater perjury than self-deception. Lying to ourselves puts to death our definitive truth. Confronting the lies we’ve told ourselves, no matter how small, is a difficult endeavor but nothing is more liberating. To be honest with ourse...

A Walk with Prudence

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself,...

Don Richard Riso

I do believe you think what now you speak, But what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity, Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. Most...

William Shakespeare

Today I wondered why my eyelashes aren't thick enough and why my feet aren't small enough. Then it hit me. Why do we take these insignificant things like millimeters on lashes and shoeboxes and then try to fit ourselves into those stupid molds? Why d...

C. JoyBell C.

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

Boost Your Self Esteem

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

When we harm others we harm ourselves; when we help others we help ourselves.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

Styxx

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

The Philosophy of Deception

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Maya Angelou