Ourselves Quotes

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

~ Garth Stein

You can't be me and I can't be you, so I guess that means we'll have to be ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

~ Jeffrey Fry

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

God doesn't punish us.We do that all by ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.

~ Kamand Kojouri

a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility

~ Rupi Kaur

It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.

~ Drew Nellins Smith

It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

~ John Fowles

Only in making peace - with ourselves, with others, and the world - will any of us find the life we are hoping for.

~ Laurence Overmire

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

~ Prem Prakash

So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life

~ Sunday Adelaja

So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine just the way we are.

~ Tim Crawshaw

We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.

~ Aleksandra Layland

If we could think about somebody else other than ourselves for a few minutes a day, this world would be so much better off.

~ Charmaine J Forde

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

~ Yixing Zhang

Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself.

~ Patricia Highsmith

The world is a mirror of ourselves.

~ Deyth Banger

The more we try to stop others from falling, the more we hurt ourselves.

~ Laure Lacornette

We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

~ Kamand Kojouri

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the world, then?’‘An illusion,’ replied Altaïr. ‘One we can either submit to – as most do – or transcend.’‘And what is it to transcend?’'To recognize that laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our Creed does not command us to be free.’ And suddenly he really did understand. ‘It commands us to be wise

~ Oliver Bowden

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling 'pissy.'Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves. ~ David Jenkins, 2013

~ David Jenkins

The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny. Rather, it is a multidimensional dynamic entity that interacts with all things, even the very smallest. And what part we each place in it and the effect we have on it is a matter of our own choice.

~ R.g. Risch

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves.The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.

~ David Hare

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

~ Aaron B. Powell

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

~ James C. Dobson

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

~ V.c. Andrews

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

~ Beth Revis

The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough