Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.
What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.
The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.
I am perfectly sane. But then again, 94% of psychotics think they are perfectly sane. So we have to ask ourselves, what is sane?
How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.
A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.
We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
