Quotes of: Ourselves Keyword

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

Mike Lowry

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Mother Maribel

Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love; but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation.

M.F. Moonzajer

When Christians sing about the wrath of God, we are singing about ourselves.

Russell D. Moore

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

Richard Russo

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.

Shannon L. Alder

We should not take our ‘Humanity’ for granted. We should love and respect things as if they were ourselves.

Sandranil Biswas

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

Mike Quigley

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

Matt Stone

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Marsha Thomason

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

Nick Cave

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Michael Eric Dyson

The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.

Henepola Gunaratana

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

David Mamet

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Brene Brown

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

Annie Leibovitz

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

Gail Sheehy

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Ronald Reagan