Quotes of: Ourselves Keyword

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "what is truth as such," and with regard to reality, not ...

La Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva

Has Christ provided such a blessed banquet for us? He does not nurse us abroad—but feeds us with His own breast—nay, with His own blood! Let us, then, study to respond to this great love of Christ. It is true, we can never parallel His love. Yet ...

The Lord's Supper

We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns...

Solaris

The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of men and women forever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that ...

Three Guineas

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our...

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

The soul does not condemn us. It is not the God of our fathers. Soul is the essence of existence and it is free and limitless. It gives all things the freedom to be, to grow, and eventually to know. It is not a judge, but a passive observer of all th...

Robert S. Cosmar

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely ...

Franz Kafka

it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot worse than trying to coin some terms of their own: to name the archetypes they wish to invert or criticise and thereby...

Foz Meadows

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regime or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart. Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we t...

Elizabeth Lesser

As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. The message of the competition/efficiency/marketplace Trinity seem...

John Ralston Saul

. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, bec...

Audre Lorde

Like two lost souls, we fall asleep in each other's arms, hoping to find ourselves once again.

Chaysing Memories

Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.

The Cedar Post

As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.

The Coming Storm

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

The Dervish House

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go & Moving on

We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

Eve of Awakening

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

An Experiment in Criticism

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

Finding Peace

...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

A Familiar Rain